First Men in the Moon: Directed by Nathan Juran. With Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson. When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journe
The First Men in the Moon: Directed by Damon Thomas. With Rory Kinnear, Mark Gatiss, Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes. In 1969, the Apollo moon landing is to be televised internationally but at a country fair in England a small boy named Jim meets the 90-year-
Universal Pictures will bring the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong to the big screen. Variety, an entertainment industry newspaper, reported that Universal has acquired the nonfiction book, "First Man: The Life of Neil A.Dave Larsen Staff Writereducation...
Did Neil Armstrong's home really catch on fire? Yes. Though the scene was cut from the final version of the movie, theFirst Mantrue story confirms that the Armstrongs' Houston home caught fire in the spring of 1964. Janet woke in the middle of the night and smelled smoke, at which tim...
Indeed, reviews emphatically presented the film as a serious and life affirming one, a film that stressed that "man is worth saving after all" (Crowther, 1959c: 34) and that was "something to be seen" because of the importance of its subject matter (Powe, 1959: 6). If Journey to ...
A couple of people replied with Mary Poppins during the film's original run. That was 1964. Several said Star Wars. That was 1977. If I really think about it, the first movie I can recall seeing at a theater would have been "The Gumball Rally" back in 1976. If you're not familiar...
John jumps up and races into a nearby room, returning with a photo of him apparently taken around the time of the White meetings. The contrast between John then and now is striking. In the photo, John looks like a sad old man--overweight, with gray hair and expressionless eyes. In the...
Monty Norman -The first man of James Bond music,best known for being credited with composing the "James Bond Theme". Norman is famous for writing the music to the first James Bond movieDr No,and has been credited with writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond...
Over the years Oriolo produced and directed more than 1,000 cartoon features. He was awarded the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists’ Golden Award last year. Donald Oriolo said his father, at the time of his death, was working on his first full-length theatrical film, a revival of “Felix ...
First Man concludes with the moon landing, which Chazelle filmed with Imax cameras. There’s a bravura moment of transition as the camera moves out of the lunar module’s door and suddenly—boom!—the screen explodes to its biggest dimensions, at least if you’re in an Imax theater. It’...