First Men in the Moon

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Actors: Miles Malleson , Lionel Jeffries , Martha Hyer , Norman Bird , Hugh McDermott , Betty McDowall , Edward Judd , Gladys Henson

Director: Nathan Juran

IMDB Rate: 6.5 out of 10 (1505 votes)

Plot Summary: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...