Going Up (film) explained

Going Up
Producer:	Douglas MacLean
Cinematography:	Ross Fisher
Studio:	Douglas MacLean Productions
Distributor:	Associated Exhibitors
Runtime:	60 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	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.

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]

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Munden p.300
2. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5717/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Going Up