1964
Film: First Men in the Moon
Creator: H G Wells, Nigel Kneale, Jan Read
Once you've seen one Harryhausen film you just have to see them all. I scoured the Radio Times for years until I was sure that I had.
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I first saw this movie in 1964 at the age of 11.
I saw it advertised on a poster one day when my mother took me shopping in my home town of Leeds.
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First Men in the Moon
H G Well's trip to the moon brought to life by Ray Harryhausen's amazing modelwork.
Outstanding special effects from stop-motion magician Ray Harryhausen add further lustre to director Nathan Juran's colourfully engaging tale of a Victorian lunar expedition.
Based on the H G Wells novel, Lionel Jeffries is splendid as the eccentric Professor Cavor using his anti-gravity paint invention to achieve lift-off into lighthearted adventure.
Cavor, Edward Judd and Martha Hyer are then captured by insectoid creatures and manaced by a Moon caterpillar in this highly enjoyable flight of sheer fantasy.
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My Science Fiction Life interviewee Tony Alleyne talks about The First Men in the Moon.
Watch the programme:
10.00pm, 29 December
8.30pm, 5 January, BBC Four
 Tony Alleyne
Creator of a flat modelled on the Enterprise
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