Sky High
About Sky High
Grant Newbury, a deputy immigration inspector, joins a gang smuggling Chinese workers over the border at Calexico so he can name the boss. In Chicago, Estelle Halloway's guardian, Jim Frazer, drops a Calexico meeting because of the heat and tells her to meet him by the Grand Canyon. Grant finds that Frazer is the boss. He helps move the men to a camp in the canyon, then goes for the police. He pulls Estelle out of a river, outruns the gang on a horse and in a car to Williams, and comes back by airplane. He flies into the canyon, jumps into the river, and frees her. Frazer is arrested. Grant says he will look after her if she will have him.
Cast & crew
More about Sky High
Lynn Reynolds directed. Benjamin H. Kline photographed it. Fox produced and released it on January 22, 1922, in five reels, 58 minutes. Tom Mix plays Grant. Eva Novak plays Estelle. J. Farrell MacDonald plays Frazer. Tony the Horse is billed. Stunt pilot Bud Creeth flew with Dick Grace for a shot of a man hanging from a rope over the canyon.
Themes
Making
Fox sent Mix, the horse, and an airplane to the Grand Canyon rather than fake the cliffs.
Look
Benjamin H. Kline shot the canyon, including the airplane flying in and the rope stunt over the rim.
Notes
- The smuggling route starts at Calexico and ends in a camp inside the Grand Canyon.
- The town Grant rides to for the police is Williams, Arizona.
- Sid Jordan plays Andrew Bates. William Buckley plays Victor Castle.
- The airplane descent into the canyon is the last move before Frazer's arrest.
Scenes
- Grant flies the airplane down into the canyon and jumps into the river.
- A man hangs from a rope over the rim for the camera.
