A Hero for a Night (1927)
Comedy | 18 December 1927
Director:
William James CraftWriter:
Harry O. HoytCinematographer:
George RobinsonProduction Company:
Universal Pictures Corp.The 31 Jul 1927 Film Daily reported that Ruth Dwyer had joined the cast of The Flying Nut, currently filming in Universal City, CA. The title was later changed to A Hero for a Night. ...
The 31 Jul 1927 Film Daily reported that Ruth Dwyer had joined the cast of The Flying Nut, currently filming in Universal City, CA. The title was later changed to A Hero for a Night.
Hiram Hastings, who drives a taxi at an eastern summer resort, takes a correspondence course in aviation and builds his own airplane, hoping to enter a race from New York to Europe. Samuel Sloan, a wealthy soap manufacturer, arrives with his daughter Mary, a trained nurse, and his confidential secretary, the last two secretly plotting to get Sloan's holdings. Hiram, infatuated with Mary, crashes a banquet in honor of a visiting French aviator and takes it upon himself to be speaker of the evening, though he is ejected. Mary learns of the plotting and with the aid of Hiram and his plane sets out for New York, but Hiram pilots them across the ocean into Russia and there makes a forced landing. The success of the flight, however, saves the Sloan ...
Hiram Hastings, who drives a taxi at an eastern summer resort, takes a correspondence course in aviation and builds his own airplane, hoping to enter a race from New York to Europe. Samuel Sloan, a wealthy soap manufacturer, arrives with his daughter Mary, a trained nurse, and his confidential secretary, the last two secretly plotting to get Sloan's holdings. Hiram, infatuated with Mary, crashes a banquet in honor of a visiting French aviator and takes it upon himself to be speaker of the evening, though he is ejected. Mary learns of the plotting and with the aid of Hiram and his plane sets out for New York, but Hiram pilots them across the ocean into Russia and there makes a forced landing. The success of the flight, however, saves the Sloan fortune.
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