

First Men in the Moon
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.7M
- Language
- English
- moon
- based on novel or book
- space travel
- moon landing
- victorian england
- giant insect
- alien
- flashback
- 19th century
- dynamation
- lunacolor
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR20 Nov 1964
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU6 Aug 1964
AustriaAT
- Theatrical121 Jan 1965
FranceFR
- Theatrical23 Dec 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1211 Dec 1964
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG18 Sept 1964
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT20 Nov 1964
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First Men in the Moon was released on 6 August 1964.
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1- J7/10
John Chard
2/16/2020
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…
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