Lilac Time (1928)
October 18, 1928Release Date
Lilac Time (1928)
October 18, 1928Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Colleen Moore
Jeannine Berthelot
Gary Cooper
Capt. Philip Blythe
Eugenie Besserer
Madame Berthelot
Burr McIntosh
Gen. Blythe
Kathryn McGuire
Lady Iris Rankin
Frank Lloyd
Director
Cleve Moore
Capt. Russell (flight commander)
Arthur Lake
The Unlucky One
Richard Jarvis
Aviator
Jack Stoney
The Kid
Dick Grace
Aviator
Dan Dowling
Aviator
George Fitzmaurice
Director
Stuart Knox
Aviator
Jack Ponder
Aviator
Jane Cowl
Writer
Guy Fowler
Writer
Harlan Hilton
Aviator
Willis Goldbeck
Writer
George Cooper
Mechanic's Helper
George Marion Jr.
Writer
Edward Dillon
Mike the Mechanic
Émile Chautard
The Mayor
Eddie Clayton
The Enemy Ace
John McCormick
Producer
Cecil Copping
Composer
Dan Mason
(uncredited)
Nathaniel Shilkret
Composer
Philo McCullough
German Officer (uncredited)
Sidney Hickox
Cinematographer
Nelson McDowell
French Drummer (uncredited)
Alexander Hall
Editor
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Lilac Time is a 1928 American silent romantic war film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper. The film is about young American aviators fighting for Britain during World War I who are billeted in a field next to a farmhouse in France. The daughter who lives on the farm meets one of the new aviators who is attracted to her. As the flyers head off on a mission, the young aviator promises to return to her.
Lilac Time was produced by John McCormick (Moore's husband), and distributed by First National Pictures. The silent film "adaptation" by Willis Goldbeck is based on a 1917 Broadway play written by Jane Murfin and actress Jane Cowl. Though some sources erroneously cite the play as having been based on a novel by Guy Fowler, the reverse is true: Fowler novelized the Goldbeck adaptation for the popular line of Grosset & Dunlap Photoplay Editions, also drawing upon text and dialogue of the play itself. Lilac Time offers several phases, beginning with slapstick comedy elements, becoming an intense romantic film, then segueing into a spectacular aerial showdown. This was followed by a duel in the sky between Cooper's character and the "Red Ace" before returning to romantic complications.