The First Men in the Moon (1919 film)
| The First Men in the Moon | |
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| Directed by | Bruce Gordon J.L.V. Leigh |
| Written by | R. Byron Webber H.G. Wells (novel) |
| Starring | Bruce Gordon Heather Thatcher Lionel d'Aragon |
| Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors Ltd. (1919) (UK) (theatrical) |
| Release date(s) | 1919 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
The First Men in the Moon is a black-and-white silent film from 1919, directed by Bruce Gordon and J.L.V. Leigh. The film is based on H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon. This, the 1919 version, is the original film; there have since been many other adaptations of the original story on the big screen, radio and video. As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.[1]
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- Bruce Gordon as Hogben
- Heather Thatcher as Susan
- Hector Abbas as Sampson Cavor
- Lionel d'Aragon as Rupert Bedford
- Cecil Morton York as Grand Lunar
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"In the company of Rupert Bedford, a grasping speculator, Samson Cavor, an elderly inventor-scientist, ascends to the Moon in a sphere coated with 'Cavorite', a substance which has the property of neutralizing the law of gravity. After strange adventures with the 'Selenites' (the inhabitants of the Moon), Bedford villainously deserts the professor and returns to Earth alone in order to make a fortune for himself out of Cavorite. By means of wireless telegraphy, however, Hogben, a young engineer in love with Cavor's niece, Susan, succeeds in getting in touch with the stranded inventor, who denounces Bedford and states that he has been amicably received by the Grand Lunar, overlord of the Selenites. Susan thereupon indignantly rejects the proposals of Bedford, who has represented it as Cavor's last wish that she should marry him, and, instead, accepts Hogben as her husband." [2]
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