TMDb Rating
5.4/10
12 verified votes
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
ComedyMusicRomance
73 min
"What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama."
Plot Summary
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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ComedyMusicRomanceEdmund GouldingDouglas FairbanksBebe Daniels1930
Director
Edmund Goulding
Top Cast
Douglas FairbanksBebe DanielsEdward Everett HortonClaud AllisterJack Mulhall
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