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When he meets the amiable, open-minded but naive English scientist Professor Cavor (a perfectly cast Nigel Planer, making you instantly forget Lionel Jeffries), he spots possibly his best-ever business opportunity in cavorite, an invention ofthe Professor’s that can make objects weightless. Bedford (Gethin Anthony, upright, likeable but roguish) is a businessman who can see profit in anything. The contradictions of late-Victorian English society are explored through the two main characters. The film riffed on contemporary interest in the 1960s’ space race – the British Empire had got to the moon before the Americans – while Big Finish’s offering addresses the darker legacy of the way the United Kingdom colonised most of the world in the 19 th century.
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I imagine most people’s memories of The First Men in the Moon will come from the colourful 1964 movie by director George Pal, a staple ingredient of Saturday morning TV in the 1970s, which saw Professor Cavor (Lionel Jeffries), Bedford (Edward Judd) and the obligatory female interest, Kate (Martha Hayer), who wasn’t in the novel, explore a subterranean moon culture brought to engaging life by Pal’s inventive special effects team.
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Mr.❉ Big Finish’s adaptation is an enjoyably authentic scientific romance, with some timely things to say about imperialism and nationalism.The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904).
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Robert Godwin credits the film as "the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel." Frankenstein, a loose adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 eponymous novel, however, had appeared in 1910, with a running time of 14 minutes, and Universal Pictures released a full length feature film of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1916. Susan thereupon indignantly rejects the proposals of Bedford, who has represented it as Cavor's last wish that she should marry him, and, instead, accepts Hogben as her husband. By means of wireless telegraphy, however, Hogben, a young engineer in love with Cavor's niece, Susan, succeeds in getting in touch with the stranded inventor, who denounces Bedford and states that he has been amicably received by the Grand Lunar, overlord of the Selenites. After strange adventures with the 'Selenites' (the inhabitants of the Moon), Bedford villainously deserts the professor and returns to Earth alone in order to make a fortune for himself out of Cavorite. In the company of Rupert Bedford, a grasping speculator, Samson Cavor, an elderly inventor-scientist, ascends to the Moon in a sphere coated with 'Cavorite', a substance which has the property of neutralizing the law of gravity. The synopsis from The Bioscope trade paper of 5 June 1919 reads as follows: