Once on the moon, they quickly discover they aren't the first creatures there. While it takes about 46 minutes before they finally get into space, it feels much longer. His fiancée Katherine (Martha Hyer) doesn’t want him to go and all the romantic melodrama between them bogs down the film. Bedford sees a great financial opportunity and wants to venture with Cavor to the moon. In reality, Cavor is a brilliant inventor, who creates a material he calls Cavorite, which has the ability to defy gravity. She is now deceased, but her husband Arnold Bedford (Edward Judd) is still alive and he tells the tale of his trip to the moon, which is shown in a flashback.īedford is a struggling businessman whose neighbor, Joseph Cavor (Lionel Jeffries), he assumes to be a crackpot. Shortly after landing a capsule on the moon's surface, the astronauts discover a British flag and a declaration written by Katherine Callender that it was claimed on behalf of Queen Victoria in 1899.
Whereas the Space Race was a proxy battle in the cold war between the world's two superpowers, the trip to the moon in 'First Men' is an international affair set up through the U.N. In the middle of the 20th century, as the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union was taking place, director Nathan Juran led a cast and crew to create the second adaptation of Wells' 'First Men in the Moon' (1964), five years before Neil Armstrong took "one giant leap for mankind." Aware of what was going on in the world at the time, the filmmakers made the wise decision to add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to Wells' story. In the 21st century, his stories continue to be adapted into different mediums. His early novels such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds have left an indelible mark, not just on the genre, but all of pop culture. Wells' fantastic imagination created tales that were so iconic he became one of the pioneers of science fiction. As the 19th century wound down, author H.G.
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