''The Midnight Flyer'' is a 1918 American
short
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action drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-gen ...
directed by
George Marshall and starring
Hoot Gibson.
Cast
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Hoot Gibson
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Violet Mersereau
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Helen Gibson
Helen Gibson (born Rose August Wegner; August 27, 1892 – October 10, 1977) was an American film actress, vaudeville performer, radio performer, film producer, trick rider, and rodeo performer; and is considered to be the first American profess ...
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G. Raymond Nye
G. Raymond Nye (April 13, 1889 – July 23, 1965) was an American film actor whose career began in silent era and lasted until the 1950s. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1912 and 1952.
Biography
Nye was born in Tamaqua, Pennsylva ...
Reception
Like many American films of the time, ''The Midnight Flyer'' was subject to cuts by
city and state film censorship boards. For example, the
Chicago Board of Censors
The Chicago Board of Censors was a film censorship committee based in Chicago that was founded in 1907 as the Police Censor Board, and operated until 1984.
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required a cut, in Reel 2, of the note reading "Danny will be gone Tuesday", three scenes of young women at a bar, the intertitle "I've come to kill you", and the shooting scene.
See also
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Hoot Gibson filmography
References
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1918 films
1918 drama films
1918 short films
1910s action drama films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by George Marshall
American action drama films
1910s American films
Silent American drama films
Silent action drama films
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