--- title: 'Reaching for the Moon (1930)' type: 'film' director: 'Edmund Goulding' released: '1930-01-01' runtime_minutes: 91 genres: - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/reaching-for-the-moon-1930' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021287/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Reaching for the Moon (1930) 1930 · 91 min · Music · United States ## Synopsis Reaching for the Moon is a 1930 American pre-Code black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut to 62 minutes. A 74-minute version aired in 1998 on AMC. The DVD version runs just under 72 minutes. The film's working title was Lucky Break and is known as Para alcanzar la Luna in Spain. It is not to be confused with the 1917 Fairbanks silent film Reaching for the Moon. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Douglas Fairbanks](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks), [Joseph M. Schenck](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-m-schenck) - **Director:** [Edmund Goulding](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-goulding) - **Screenplay:** [Edmund Goulding](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-goulding) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-newman) - **Director of Photography:** [Ray June](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-june) - **Editor:** [Hal C. Kern](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-c-kern) ## Cast - [Bing Crosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/bing-crosby) - [Walter Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-walker) - [Helen Jerome Eddy](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-jerome-eddy) - [June MacCloy](https://cinepixo.com/people/june-maccloy) - [Bebe Daniels](https://cinepixo.com/people/bebe-daniels) - [Claud Allister](https://cinepixo.com/people/claud-allister) - [Edward Everett Horton](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-everett-horton) - [Douglas Fairbanks](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks) - [Jack Mulhall](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mulhall) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/reaching-for-the-moon-1930 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7300225); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.