With its “entire cast composed of colored artists,” the 1926 silent film “The Flying Ace” was photographed ... In the film Lawrence Criner plays Capt. Billy Stokes, a heroic figure in ...

“The Flying Ace,” the only known surviving ... The plot features decorated military pilot Captain Billy Stokes (J. Laurence — sometimes spelled Lawrence — Criner) returning to his civilian ...

(Courtesy) “The Flying Ace” concerns the disappearance of a large sum of money from a railway station. Investigating the case is Captain Billy Stokes, a World War I fighter pilot and war hero ...

John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson are both 62 years old. So was World War I flying ace Billy Bishop when he died. That lends a certain bizarre symmetry to the fact that Gray and Peterson are ...