Going the Limit (1926 film)

Going the Limit is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Chester Withey and starring George O'Hara, Sally Long and Brooks Benedict. 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.

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.

Cast

 * George O'Hara as 	Gordon Emery
 * Sally Long as 	Estelle Summers
 * Brooks Benedict as 	George Stanways
 * Tom Ricketts as 	Mortimer Harden
 * Murdock MacQuarrie as 	Simson Windsor