Reaching for the Moon (1917)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

John Emerson

Writers:

John Emerson (writer)
Joseph Henabery (story)

Release Date:

17 November 1917 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings"...

Plot Keywords:

Swashbuckler

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks	...	Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown
Eileen Percy	...	Elsie Merrill
Richard Cummings	...	Old Bingham the Boss
Millard Webb	...	Mr. Mann
Eugene Ormonde	...	Sergius Badinoff the Prime
Frank Campeau	...	Black Boris

Runtime:

USA:62 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Filming Locations:

Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures

A Button factory worker dreams of walking with kings

Alexis is a likeable Walter Mitty type, who constantly dreams of mixing with royalty. He has a love - Elsie, who listens to his dreams attentively. Alexis finds a very big surprise for him one morning - He's the last line of a Royal family and the successor to the throne of "Vulgaria"!!(An Austro/Italian/Hungarian monarchy). For anyone who saw "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, they'll perhaps find the same sort of laughs from this film. - Reaching for the Moon isn't a comedy per-se but there are many humorous moments. I think the moral of the film is "America's democracy is better than anything that the European degenerates have". - Maybe they're right- but this film WAS made in the First World War, when anti Kaiser Wilhelm sentiment would have been at its greatest. I just saw this film tonight (for the first time) on my Standard 8 projector. - Somehow it looked the appropriate medium to view the film on...