The Air Mail

The Air Mail is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Warner Baxter, Billie Dove, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

After making a forced landing, however, at a "Ghost City" in the desert, he falls in love with Alice Rendon (Billie Dove) and decides to become law-abiding.

When her father (George Irving) needs medicine, he flies to get it, but on the way back is chased by smugglers in other aircraft trafficking narcotics and illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

[3] To make The Air Mail, the, Famous Players–Lasky company traveled by train to Beatty, Nevada, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Rhyolite, where it set up temporary headquarters on January 10, 1925.

[8] Reviewer Mordaunt Hall, writing for The New York Times in 1925, said that although Dove and Baxter in The Air Mail, "... deliver creditable performances", the story is "... only mildly interesting and often quite tedious".

Leader Theater in Washington, DC with The Air Mail ads
The Air Mail lobby card