First Men in the Moon

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Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1964
Country: UK
Runtime: 103
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Nathan Juran
Sound: Mono, 70 mm 6-Track
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H.G. Wells Astounding Adventure in Dynamation!

Writing by: Nigel Kneale - (screenplay) &
Jan Read - (screenplay)
H.G. Wells - (story)

Produced by: Ray Harryhausen - associate producer
Charles H. Schneer - producer

Cast: Edward Judd - Arnold Bedford
Martha Hyer - Katherine Kate Callender
Lionel Jeffries - Joseph Cavor
Miles Malleson - Dymchurch Registrar
Norman Bird - Stuart, Moon Landing Crew
Gladys Henson - Nursing Home Matron
Hugh McDermott - Richard Challis, UN Space Agency
Betty McDowall - Margaret Hoy, UN Space Agency
Paul Carpenter - Reporter from the Express (uncredited)
Erik Chitty - Gibbs, Cavors Hired Man (uncredited)
Peter Finch - Bailiffs Man (uncredited)

Music: Laurie Johnson
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Plot Outline: Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the worlds astronauts lands on the moon...
Plot: Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the worlds astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock 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. On Earth, an investigation team finds the last of the Victorian crew - a now aged Arnold Bedford and he tells them the story of how he and his girlfriend, Katherine Callender, meet up with a inventor, Joseph Cavor, in 1899. Cavor has invented Cavorite, a paste that will allow anything to deflect gravity and he created a sphere that will actually take them to the moon. Taking Arnold and accidently taking Katherine they fly to the moon where, to their total amazement, they discover a bee-like insect population who take a unhealthy interest in their Earthly visitors...

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the beginning, the title is given as "The Brain That Wouldnt Die." The end title card lists the title as "The Head That Wouldnt Die."

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: Large 48-star US flag in the parade scene (presumably stock footage).

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
This is the only one of Ray Harryhausens films to be shot in Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) due to the difficulty of compositing images in his Dynamation Process. Many of the models had to be sculpted in the "squeezed" dimensions so that when the were photographed with an anamorphic lens, they would appear in their normal shape.
Last film of Paul Carpenter.
Peter Finch appears briefly as a messenger. He was reputedly only visiting the set when the original actor assigned to play the part failed to show up.