Reaching for the Moon

Name: Reaching for the Moon
Director: Edmund Goulding
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Released: 1930-12-29
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 5.731
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Claud Allister, Jack Mulhall

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

1930

1h 13m

Comedy Music Romance

Director: Edmund Goulding

Writers: Irving Berlin, Edmund Goulding

Overview

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.