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The Flying Ace (1926) was an action genre silent film, with an all-African American cast, about a flying ace during World War I. This six-reel film, made in Jacksonville, Florida, features Laurence Criner, who played the role of pilot William Stokes, and Kathryn Boyd, who played Ruth Sawtelle. The film was released only a year before Wings (1927), the first film to win an Academy Award.