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First Men in the Moon
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.
1964 · Directed by Nathan Juran · 103 min · Adventure · Science Fiction · 10 frames
Tagline
H.G. Wells' Astounding Adventure in Dynamation!
Crew
- Screenplay: Nigel Kneale, Jan Read
- Cinematography: Wilkie Cooper
- Edited by: Maurice Rootes
- Music: Laurie Johnson
- Produced by: Charles H. Schneer
Cast
- Edward Judd as Arnold Bedford
- Martha Hyer as Kate Callender
- Lionel Jeffries as Joseph Cavor
- Miles Malleson as Dymchurch Registrar
- Norman Bird as Stuart
- Gladys Henson as Nursing Home Matron
- Hugh McDermott as Richard Challis
- Betty McDowall as Margaret Hoy
- Erik Chitty as Gibbs (uncredited)
- Douglas Ives as Sparks (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, Ameran Films
- Box office: $1,650,000
- Themes: moon, based on novel or book, space travel, moon landing, victorian england, giant insect, alien, flashback, 19th century, dynamation
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