The Fighting American

The Fighting American (1924)

In the air. On land. On sea.

On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…

Date of release
1924-05-26
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
53m
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Director
Tom Forman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Fighting American is a surviving 1924 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by Tom Forman. The young Mary Astor plays a young college student who is the object of desire in the eyes of the hero.

Production

The plot of The Fighting American was a romantic satire penned by William Elwell Oliver, the winner of a writing contest that Universal Studios held for college students. The working title of the film was "The Throwback."

A spectacular aerial stunt appeared in The Fighting American where two stuntmen fought on the wings of a Curtiss JN-4 with one stuntman falling off the wing. Instead of falling to his death, the falling stuntman doubled by former circus acrobat Russel Benton, swung in pendulum style onto the other wing tip.

Two Curtiss JN-4s flew out of Clover Field near Houston, with one acting as a camera platform flown by Frank Tomick and the other aircraft flown by Leo Nomis.

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