The First Men in the Moon (1919 film)

The First Men in the Moon 1919 is a blackandwhite silent film, directed by Bruce Gordon and J. L. V. Leigh. The film is based on H. G. Wells science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon 1901. There have since been many other adaptations of the original story on the big screen, radio and video.

In the company of Rupert Bedford, a grasping speculator, Samson Cavor, an elderly inventorscientist, ascends to the Moon in a sphere coated with Cavorite, a substance which has the property of neutralizing the law of gravity. 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. By means of wireless telegraphy, however, Hogben, a young engineer in love with Cavors 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. Susan thereupon indignantly rejects the proposals of Bedford, who has represented it as Cavors last wish that she should marry him, and, instead, accepts Hogben as her husband.Robert Godwin credits the film as the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel. ........

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