First Men in the Moon

1964 PG-13 1h 43m

6.3 / 10 144

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6.3/10

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The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up 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.

Director Nathan Juran

Writers

Nigel Kneale Jan Read H. G. Wells

Stars

Edward Judd Martha Hyer Lionel Jeffries

Bailiff's Man (uncredited)

Marne Maitland

Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency (uncredited)

Laurence Herder

Glushkov, UN Space Agency

Paul Carpenter

Reporter from the 'Express' (uncredited)

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John Forbes-Robertson

First Reporter (uncredited)

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Kenneth Watson

Second Reporter (uncredited)

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Sean Kelly

Col. Rice, Moon Landing Crew (uncredited)

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Gordon Robinson

Sgt Andrew Martin, Moon Landing Crew (uncredited)

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John Murray Scott

Cosmonaut Nevsky, Moon Landing Crew (uncredited)

Brook Williams

British Astronaut, Moon Landing Crew (uncredited)

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George Hilsdon

Constable (uncredited)

Announcer (uncredited)

Valentine Dyall

Narrator (uncredited)

Adventure Science Fiction

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John Chard 16 Feb 2020

7/10

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 ...