H.G. Wells' Astounding Adventure in Dynamation!
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew comprised of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria, proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Feb 20207/10
Could you believe, they put a man on the Moon - that early!? Directed by Nathan Juran, First Men In The Moon is an adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel "The First Men in the Moon". Nigel Kneale (creator of Quatermass) and Jan Read write the screenplay, Ray Harryhausen provides the stop-motion effects, and the cast is made up of Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd & Martha Hyer. The story sees a UN rocket flight to the Moon land in 1964 thinking it is the first landing in history. However, they discover a British Union Flag and a notice written by a Katherine Callender (Hyer) stating that the Moon has already been claimed in the name of Queen Victoria. This starts off a search by the UN to locate Katherine so as to get to the bottom of the story. They soon find that she has passed away but locate her husband Arnold Bedford (Judd) in an old people's home. Arnold has over the years been dismissed as being "not right" for his claims of having once been to the Moon. But now the authorities are very keen to listen to what Arnold has to say. He tells a fantastical story of the time in 1899 when Professor Joseph Cavor (Jeffries), Katharine and himself, went to the Moon and met an alien race known
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Cast
- Edward JuddArnold Bedford
- Martha HyerKate Callender
- Lionel JeffriesJoseph Cavor
- Miles MallesonDymchurch Registrar
- Norman BirdStuart
- Gladys HensonNursing Home Matron
- Hugh McDermottRichard Challis
- Betty McDowallMargaret Hoy
- Erik ChittyGibbs (uncredited)
- Douglas IvesSparks (uncredited)
Crew
- Nathan JuranDirector
- Nigel KnealeScreenplay
- Jan ReadScreenplay
- Wilkie CooperDirector of Photography
- Laurie JohnsonOriginal Music Composer
- Maurice RootesEditor
- Charles H. SchneerProducer
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