Dwight Locke, a blasé millionaire who has seen and done everything, gives a party for his ranch hands at a city restaurant. His fiancée, Jane Norworth, sees him there with a chorus girl and later upbraids him for not being a worker like her chemist brother Milton.


Moonlight has always been a merciless spotlight for the bored rich, and in Chasing the Moon it glints off the silver spurs of Dwight Locke—a man who has bought every thrill between the Rio Grande and the Ritz until the only frontier left is mortality itself. The film opens inside a cosmopolitan steakhouse that might ...


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" Moonlight has always been a merciless spotlight for the bored rich, and in Chasing the Moon it glints off the silver spurs of Dwight Locke—a man who has bought every thrill between the Rio Grande and the Ritz until the only frontier left is mortality itself. The film opens inside a cosmopolitan steakhouse that might as well be a gilded coffin: tuxedoed ranch-hands, champagne cascading like liquid ticker-tape, and chorus girls shimmying on tabletops while the camera glides through cigar haze wi..."
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