''Aflame in the Sky'' is a 1927 American silent

adventure film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...

directed by

J.P. McGowan John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ...

and starring

Sharon Lynn Sharon Lynn (born D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay, April 9, 1901 – May 26, 1963) was an American actress and singer. She began playing in silent films but enjoyed her biggest success in the early sound years of motion pictures before fading away i ...

Jack Luden Jacob Benson Luden (February 8, 1902 – February 15, 1951) was an American film actor. Early life The son of Jacob and Anna Luden, he grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania. His uncle was confectioner William H. Luden, who developed the menthol coug ...

and William Humphrey.McGowan p.100

Cast

as Inez Carillo *

as Terry Owen * William Humphrey as Major Savage * Robert McKim as Joseph Murdoch * William Scott as Saunders * Charles A. Stevenson as Grandfather *

Billy Franey William Gerald Franey (June 23, 1889 – December 6, 1940) was an American film actor. Born in Chicago in 1889, Franey appeared in more than 400 films between 1914 and 1941, mostly playing comedic roles. He was an actor of disheveled appea ...

as Cookie * Mark Hamilton as Slim *

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as Desert Rat *

Jane Keckley Jane Keckley (September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963) was an American actress of the silent and sound film eras. Biography Keckley was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and went to school there and in Georgia. Before she acted in films, Kec ...

as Cordelia Murdoch

References

Bibliography

* John J. McGowan. ''J.P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

* 1927 films 1927 adventure films Silent American adventure films Films directed by J. P. McGowan American silent feature films 1920s English-language films Film Booking Offices of America films American black-and-white films Films based on works by Mary Roberts Rinehart 1920s American films English-language adventure films {{silent-adventure-film-stub