Reaching for the Moon

What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.

Duration: 73 min

Release date: 1930-12-29

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Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

as Vivien Benton

Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

as Roger, the Valet

as Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford

as Jimmy Carrington

as James Benton

as Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings

Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy

as Larry's Secretary

William H. O'Brien

William H. O'Brien

as Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)

as Ship's Party Guest (uncredited)

as Associate (uncredited)

Emmett Corrigan

Emmett Corrigan

as Timothy Grovener - Bank President (uncredited)

as Coat Girl (uncredited)

as Outraged Mother at Ship's Party (uncredited)

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Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

Robert H. Planck

Robert H. Planck

William Cameron Menzies

William Cameron Menzies

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