A WWI pilot crashes, forgets his wife, and his brother moves in. Peak 1920s drama.
Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.
Direction
Bretherton squeezes operatic emotion into one tight hour.
Production
Lost for decades — surviving stills suggest ambitious aerial sequences.
Director
Howard Bretherton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film is considered lost — no complete prints survive in any archive. Only still photographs and a detailed synopsis remain.
1928 marked Hollywood's awkward transition to sound; this late silent exemplifies the mature visual storytelling that talkies would temporarily abandon.
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