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First Men in the Moon [DVD] [2002]
 
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First Men in the Moon [DVD] [2002]

Edward Judd , Martha Hyer , Nathan Juran    Universal, suitable for all   DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird
  • Directors: Nathan Juran
  • Writers: H.G. Wells, Jan Read, Nigel Kneale
  • Producers: Charles H. Schneer, Ray Harryhausen
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005UWUC
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,513 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Special Features

This is Dynamation featurette
The Harryhausen Chronicles
Photo Gallery
Trailer
Languages: English, French, German
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish Feature Run Time: 99 minutes

From the Back Cover

H.G. Wells’ fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring extraterrestrial creatures. The film begins with a team of United Nations astronauts planning an upcoming moon mission. The astronauts are both confused and intrigued by a man (Edward Judd) who claims he, his fiancée and a scientist journeyed to the moon 65 years ago and were attacked by "Selenites," grotesque, human-like ant forms that live in immense crystal caverns. Now it’s up to the U.N. team to attempt a lunar landing that could be more horrifying than ever believed possible. Directed by Nathan Juran (Attack of the 50-Foot Woman), First Men In The Moon also stars Martha Hyer and Lionel Jeffries.


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50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fine slice of Movie Entertainment, 15 Oct 2002
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This review is from: First Men in the Moon [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
I have been waiting for this movie to become available on DVD and in glorious widescreen.

For me, Lionel Jeffries is the archetypal self-obsessed victorian scientist - intelligently played with greater subtlty than at first obvious (the 'such a terrible cold' is almost too subtle), terrifically humouros, and a great comic characterisation. Edward Judd plays an excellent victorian leading man (pity he was so hard to get on with in real life that he didn't make many films), and Martha Hyer an acceptable (if underdeveloped) leading lady - her wail of 'Arnold' will always make me grin. Laurie Johnson's two-part score (he scored the first part of the movie in a different style to the second... and rightly so) is wonderful and Harryhausen's masterful special effects, though not so obvious as in others of his movies are used to better effect in this movie. All his styles from 'Earth vs the Flying Saucers' to the various Sinbad movies in one movie and with greater subtlty. As for HG Wells, this film is as true to the novel as Pal's 'The Time Machine' and much truer than the movie of 'War of the Worlds' - it is my favourite treatment of Wells in the movies.

HG Wells', Lionel Jeffries', Edward Judd's and Ray Harryhausen's finest cinematic outing - and a heck of an entertaining movie to boot - so long as you're not turned-off by an innocent adventure, that is - and I hope you'll enjoy this one as I do.

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64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great film - well worth buying, 11 Mar 2003
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Bob Kingsley (Weston-super-Mare, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: First Men in the Moon [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
Marvellous to see this classic 60s film in DVD quality. Only Lionel Jeffries could have portrayed H. G. Wells' excitable, eccentric Professor Cavor with such gusto; Edward Judd and Martha Hyer provide fulsome support as his fellow-travellers - and Ray Harryhausen's special effects, though perhaps considered rather prosaic by today's high-tech standards, easily stand the test of time.

As a nine-year-old when the film first came out, I found it inspirational: convinced there really must be such a material as Cavorite, the gravity-defying substance that provided the means of propelling the Sphere all the way to the moon, I spent hours reading chemistry and science books looking for clues as to how it might be created; and the idea of using a metal ball covered in old railway buffers to effect a soft, bouncing lunar landing seemed entirely logical at the time. (Interesting that decades later, a similar principle, but using large balloons instead of buffers, was used to deliver the Rover Sojourner safely onto the Martian surface.)

Our heroes find that the moon is inhabited by Selenites that live under the surface. While Cavor is fascinated by these child-sized, bug-like sentient creatures and wants nothing more than to communicate meaningfully with them, Arnold Bedford and his fiancée Kate provide the obligatory juxtapositions - Kate's terrified and repulsed by them, while Bedford thinks nothing of killing them whenever they get in his way.

As the story unfolds, we learn more about the Selenites' own underlying fears - is an invasion of their secret world underway? What should they do about these strange interlopers? The denoument of the story provides a twist that, while perhaps a little obvious these days, was new and eye-opening back then.

The DVD includes "This is Dynamation" - a featurette of interest more for its curiosity value than for what it actually tells you about the Dynamation process - and, much more absorbing, "The Harryhausen Chronicles" which gives ample background about the life of one of the movie world's greatest special effects innovators. It details the stop-motion techniques he devised as a youngster and how he perfected the painstaking process of bringing his exotic and fantastical creatures to life on the big screen in the Sinbad films, Jason And The Argonauts, One Million Years B.C. and many other classics. Decades later his lifelong friend, author Ray Bradbury, was proud to present him with the Golden Sawyer Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1992 for his contribution to the world of cinema.

The cover notes on the DVD packaging appear confusing. It states: "The film begins with a team of United Nations astronauts planning an upcoming moon mission," whereas the film actually opens with the astronauts touching down on the lunar surface and making a discovery that indicates someone's been there before them. The notes continue: "The astronauts are both confused and intrigued by a man (Edward Judd) who claims he, his fiancée and a scientist journeyed to the moon 65 years ago ... Now it's up to the U.N. team to attempt a lunar landing ..." But it's only after the amazing discovery on the lunar surface that attempts are made back on Earth to locate the man at the centre of the mystery. I guess that for reasons of limited space the notes had to be somewhat truncated, but still, it smacks of a certain laziness on the part of Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment that they couldn't set the scene more accurately.

This little niggle aside, First Men In The Moon provides 99 minutes of excellent movie entertainment, and "The Harryhausen Chronicles" completes a great evening's viewing.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars great but why censored, 30 April 2008
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Michael Clayden (Oxfordshire England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Men in the Moon [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
A classic sci fi film and a firm favourite of mine. the DVD looks great in Widescreen but beware the R2 version has been cut.The scene of the selenites stripping the moon calf( a giant caterpillar) of flesh has been completely removed! Dont understand this as whenever " first men in the moon" is shown on the telly its left in.I complained to columbia tristar but they never replied. Guess they are probably running round looking for the missing scene..one hopes.
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