First Men In The Moon details

Format: U DVD
Starring: Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer
Director: Nathan Juran
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Sci-fi - General
Studio: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
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First Men In The Moon
U Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 1 hour 39 minutes
Rental release: 14 Oct 2002
Main languages: English
Dubbed: German, French
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
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Most helpful review First Men In The Moon

  • Harryhausen in space...

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By a customer from Birmingham, UK , 19 Jan 2005

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    An utterly charming romp involving Victorian gentlemen scientists travelling to the moon and engaging with the insect-like Selenites. Both these and the monstrous moon cows were animated using Harryhausen's stop-go animation methods, although in some scenes the Selenites played by characters using 'suitimation' techniques. Loosely based on H.G. Well's book and with mild comic relief provided by Lionel Jeffries, the film's transfer to DVD is bright and colourful although I was disappointed with the extras, as they consist of the Harryhausen Chronicles and a Dynamation feature which appear on other DVDs - I would have liked a featurette on the film itself. This was Harryhausen's only second outing in a 'space' film, if you count 'Earth vs the Flying Saucers' as the first.
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  • men in the moon

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer from colchester , 18 Mar 2011
    great film with a simple story. great charecters and good enough effects. good old film that doesnt get old for me. was used to be shown every xmas up to about 10 years ago and was allways watched
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  • First Men In The Moon

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer from Gloucestershire , 09 Nov 2010
    A good watch.

    Prefer the original book version.

    Got this after seeing the recent TV adaptation.

    Have to say this is the better story.

    Stays with the original story better.
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  • First Men in the Moon

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By ricozebigone (3 reviews) from Norwich , 19 Feb 2009
    Great quirky old time movie when the moon was made of cheese and you could walk about on it wearing a Seibe Gorman diving helmet - 'Imperial'!
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  • Victorian amateur astronauts.

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By a customer from Bradford , 27 Sep 2008
    (3R - three word reviews)
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  • top notch

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer from Manchester third rock from the sun , 14 Apr 2006
    Victorian Scrap Heap Challenge…..

    This week the team have to build a space craft capable of going to the moon & back using special paint that repels gravity and parts found in the Victorian train scrap yard.

    If your a fan of 'the time machine' & 'Jason and the Argonauts' then you will love this a film you can enjoy with your children.

    **BUT REMEMBER** this is a sci-fi movie **NOT** a documentary…!!!

    So don’t pick holes in it.
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