Going Up (film)

1923 film

Raymond Griffith
Otto A. Harbach
Louis A. Hirsch

Based onThe Aviator
by James MontgomeryProduced byDouglas MacLeanStarring

Douglas MacLean
Hallam Cooley
Marjorie Daw

CinematographyRoss Fisher

Production
company

Douglas MacLean Productions

Distributed byAssociated Exhibitors

Release date

September 30, 1923 (1923-09-30)

Running time

60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Going Up is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Douglas MacLean, Hallam Cooley and Marjorie Daw.^[1] It was based on a 1917 comedy Broadway play The Aviator.

Plot

The author of a series of bestselling novels about aviation has false gained a reputation has an expert pilot when he cannot fly and has a phobia of planes. However, when he is challenged by a genuine expert to a race with a rival in love, he accepts and triumphs.

Cast

Douglas MacLean as Robert Street
Hallam Cooley as Hopkinson Brown
Arthur Stuart Hull as James Brooks
Francis McDonald as Jules Gaillard
Hughie Mack as Sam Robinson
Wade Boteler as John Gordon
John Steppling as William Douglas
Mervyn LeRoy as The Bellboy
Marjorie Daw as Grace Douglas
Edna Murphy as Madeline Manners
Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Douglas

Preservation

With no prints of Going Up located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[2]

References

^ Munden p.300
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Going Up

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.