Going the Limit (1926 film)

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Going the Limit
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Directed by Chester Withey
Written byArthur Ebenhack
Produced by Joseph P. Kennedy
Starring George O'Hara
Sally Long
Brooks Benedict
Cinematography André Barlatier
Production
company
Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Distributed by Film Booking Offices of America
Ideal Films (UK)
Release date
  • September 12, 1926 (1926-09-12)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Going the Limit is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Chester Withey and starring George O'Hara, Sally Long and Brooks Benedict. [1] [2] It is loosely inspired by the plot of George Barr McCutcheon's Brewster's Millions , also featuring a central character who is trying to lose money.

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Synopsis

Gordon Emery hopes to marry the wealthy Estelle Summers but is ashamed of his own lack of money. He then hears that he is the sole heir of a fortune of two million dollars from his uncle. Estelle refuses to marry him, however, unless he loses all of it. Convinced that the best way to do this will be to get arrested and compel his uncle to disinherit him, he tries a to get arrested in a variety of ways but keeps failing to do so and is even commended for preventing a bank robbery.

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References

  1. Munden p.300
  2. Connelly p.354

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