Reaching for the Moon
(1917) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John Emerson

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks [Alexis Caesar Napoleon], Richard Cummings [‘Old Man’ Bingham], Millard Webb [Mr. Mann], Eileen Percy [Elsie Merrill], Eugene Ormonde [Minister of Vulgaria], Frank Campeau [‘Black’ Boris], [?] Erich von Stroheim?

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Douglas Fairbanks. Scenario by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Cinematography by Victor Fleming, Sam Landers and Harry Thorpe. / © 7 November 1917 by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation [LP11685]. Released 18 November 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3643.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Ambition - Buttons - Cabinet ministers - Clerks - Crime: Murder (Attempted) - Dismissals - Dreams - Duels - Factories - Kingdoms (Mythical) - Marriages (Arranged) - Philosophy - Royalty - USA: New Jersey, New York (New York) - Usurpers

Listing updated: 24 January 2005.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3643; Bardèche-History p. 115; Limbacher-Feature p. 199.