The First Men in the Moon (1919)

Directors

Bruce Gordon, J.L.V. Leigh

Cast

Bruce Gordon, Heather Thatcher, Hector Abbas, Lionel d'Aragon, Cecil Morton York

The story

The synopsis from The Bioscope trade paper of 5 June 1919 reads as follows: 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. 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 Cavor's niece, Susan, succeeds in getting in touch with…

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