The First Men in the Moon (1919 film)

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The First Men in the Moon
Gaumont British
(UK)
Release date
  • 1919 (1919)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish intertitles

The First Men in the Moon is a 1919 black-and-white silent film, directed by Bruce Gordon and J. L. V. Leigh. The film was based on H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon.

As of August 2010, the film is not held in the BFI National Archive and is listed on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of lost films.[1] Stills from the production and a plot synopsis exist.[2]

Plot

The synopsis from The Bioscope trade paper of 5 June 1919 reads as follows:

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.[1]

Notability

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
in 1916.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "The First Men in the Moon / BFI Most Wanted". Internet Archive. London: British Film Institute. 23 December 2010. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. ^ (retrieved 5 May 2014).

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