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...
Review of Reaching for the Moon
