Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

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

NR 1930 · 73 min · ★ 5.8 · Comedy, Music, Romance

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.

Directed by Edmund Goulding · Written by Irving Berlin

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