An inventor adds new innovations to Baker Airplane Company's planes, inventions coveted by the owners of a rival company. The masked and mysterious airman, known only as Pilot X, makes plans to steal the inventions for his own purposes.
Look, if you're not already into early cinema, especially silent serials, then The Mysterious Airman is probably not where you start. It's a relic, pure and simple, full of all the quirks and charms and frustrations that come with something nearly a century old. But if you have a soft spot for daring aviators, masked v...
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Harry Revier
George B. Seitz
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"Look, if you're not already into early cinema, especially silent serials, then The Mysterious Airman is probably not where you start. It's a relic, pure and simple, full of all the quirks and charms and frustrations that come with something nearly a century old. But if you have a soft spot for daring aviators, masked villains, and the kind of earnest, wide-eyed melodrama only the 1920s could deliver, you might actually have a pretty good time. Anyone expecting modern pacing or nuanced performanc..."
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