TripleHate Reads: Conversation with the Grand Lunar (First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells)
5For Halloween week, I have decided upon a reading from a work by one of the great monster masters, Ray Harryhausen! From the 1964 film First Men in the Moon (adapted from the H.G. Wells story of the same name), this tragic tale tells of a secret expedition to the moon in 1899 by three Victorian English twits, via an experimental anti-gravity substance. After many misadventures (and more than a few dead Selenites), the inventor of the substance and craft, professor Joseph Cavor (Lionel Jeffries) manages to obtain an audience with the Grand Lunar, the "brain" and mouthpiece of the Selenites. What follows is a poignant and rather depressing First Contact, in which the professor does a less-than-satisfactory job of explaining mankind to the alien intelligence, leading to the (not incorrect) conclusion that humans are a dangerous race to be avoided...
Scene in question here: • First Men In The Moon (1964)