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Play Sound And yet to fight in a war is considered an honor. It's difficult to explain but men killed in battle are heroes. Odd isn't it. Men enjoy to make war. No they detest it. Then if they make war they are defective. Well we're not perfect. Mankind is still developing. We're not perfect. There are men of peace. My concern is with the men of violence the men who kill. Soon others will come from Earth. Our galleries will be strewn with dead. There needn't be any others There needn't be. I alone...
And yet to fight in a war is considered an honor. It's difficult to explain but men killed in battle are heroes. Odd isn't it. Men enjoy to make war. No they detest it. Then if they make war they are defective. Well we're not perfect. Mankind is still developing. We're not perfect. There are men of peace. My concern is with the men of violence the men who kill. Soon others will come from Earth. Our galleries will be strewn with dead. There needn't be any others There needn't be. I alone...

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Description: When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.

Cast:
Arnold Bedford: Edward Judd
Kate Callender: Martha Hyer
Prof. Joseph Cavor: Lionel Jeffries
Dymchurch Registrar: Miles Malleson
Stuart: Norman Bird
Nursing Home Matron: Gladys Henson
Richard Challis: Hugh McDermott
Margaret Hoy: Betty McDowall
Reporter from the 'Express': Paul Carpenter
Gibbs, Cavor's Hired Man: Erik Chitty
Narrator: Valentine Dyall
Bailiff's Man: Peter Finch
First Reporter: John Forbes-Robertson
Wedding Guest: Patrick Halpin
Glushkov, UN Space Agency: Laurence Herder
Constable: George Hilsdon
Sparks: Douglas Ives
Col. Rice, Moon Landing Crew: Sean Kelly
Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency: Marne Maitland
Selenite: Terry Marison
Nurse: Mary Maxfield
Sgt. Andrew Martin, Moon Landing Crew: Gordon Robinson
Cosmonaut Nevsky, Moon Landing Crew: John Murray Scott
Announcer: Huw Thomas
Voice: Tim Turner
Second Reporter: Kenneth Watson

Written by: Nigel Kneale, Jan Read, H.G. Wells

Director: Nathan Juran

Production: Columbia Pictures, Ameran Films

Release date: 20 Nov 1964

Box Office: $1,650,000