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Directed by | Lloyd Ingraham |
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Based on | The Aviator by James Montgomery |
Produced by | Douglas MacLean |
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Cinematography | Ross Fisher |
Production company | Douglas MacLean Productions |
Distributed by | Associated Exhibitors |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent 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.
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.
With no prints of Going Up located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film. [2]
Going Up is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Louis Hirsch and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and James Montgomery. Set in the US city of Lenox, Massachusetts, at the end of World War I, the musical tells the story of a writer turned aviator who wins the hand of the high society girl that he loves by his daring handling of the joystick of a biplane. Popular songs included "Hip Hooray", "If You Look in Her Eyes", "Kiss Me", "Going Up", "Do It for Me", "The Tickle Toe", and "Down! Up! Left! Right!".
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