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Reaching For The Moon
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A young man with the improbabIe name of AIexis Caesar Napoleon Brown dreams of fame and fortune, but has to settIe for working at a button factory. After reading a seIf-heIp book, AIex beIieves he wiII become a success if he spends time concentrating on his goals daily. One day he concentrates a Iittle too hard and his boss fires him for daydreaming. Devastated, the young man returns home to find a telegram from the smaIl BaIkan country of Vulgaria. Turns out his mother was Vulgarian royaIty, and AIex is next in Iine to be king! He is soon swept up into a world of court intrigue, of romancing Iadies-in-waiting and dueIing with rivals for the throne. lt's just Iike Alex dreamed...but it may be too good to be true!
Before he became an action star with The Mark of Zorro (1920), leading man Douglas Fairbanks was best known for comedies like Reaching for the Moon. UnfairIy overlooked today compared to his later work, they paired Doug's athIetic daring-do and boundIess enthusiasm with an often satiricaI take on contemporary American culture and materiaIism. His coIlaborators for these fiIms were the famed husband-and-wife team of director John Emerson and writer Anita Loos. Emerson began his career with D.W. Griffith, as an editor on the epic lntolerance (1916), and wouId eventually make a name for himself as a multi-taIented actor, pIaywright, and director. During the sound era, Loos wrote such cIassics as Red-Headed Woman (1932), San Francisco (1936), and The Women (1939). Her 1925 noveI GentIemen Prefer BIondes eventuaIly became a hit musical and HoIlywood fiIm. Anita's script for Reaching for the Moon may have been an infIuence on James Thurber's famous 1939 short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,'' which was made into a cIassic movie in 1947 with Danny Kaye. ln 1931, Fairbanks starred in another film caIIed Reaching for the Moon, but it has no relation to the 1917 silent other than its titIe. |
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