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Reaching for the Moon is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edmund Goulding released in USA on 29 december 1930 with Douglas Fairbanks

Reaching for the Moon (1930)

Reaching for the Moon
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Released in USA 29 december 1930
Length 1h31
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating55% 2.7601552.7601552.7601552.7601552.760155

Reaching for the Moon is a 1930 American Pre-Code black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut to 62 minutes. A 74-minute version aired in 1998 on USA cable channel AMC. The DVD version runs just under 72 minutes. The film's working title was Lucky Break and is known as Para alcanzar la Luna in Spain. It is not to be confused with the Fairbanks silent film, Reaching for the Moon (1917).

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Douglas Fairbanks

(Larry Day)Bebe Daniels

(Vivien Benton)Edward Everett Horton

(Roger, the Valet)Claud Allister

(Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford)Jack Mulhall

(Jimmy Carrington)
And :
Walter Walker
June MacCloy
Helen Jerome Eddy
Bing Crosby
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