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When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
Eliot Makeham
Harold Drake
Rène Ray
Stella Drake
Derrick De Marney
Bryan Grant
John Clements
Edward Teale
Morton Selten
Lord Bravington
Mary Hinton
Lady Bravington
Wally Patch
Syd Parrott
Thorley Walters
Beamish
Gerald Barry
Col. Fitzgeorge
Richard Goolden
Rev. Benjamin Buffett
H. Saxon-Snell
K. Pilkington-Bigge
John Turnbull
Capt. Crump
Director, Writer
Anthony Kimmins
Novel
Owen Rutter
August 11, 2019
'Once in a New Moon' is an old English film with the atmosphere of an Ealing comedy. A dead star comes near our planet and its gravity sucks an English village into space so that it orbits Earth as another moon, complete with gravity, atmosphere and a sea. I would class it as a fantasy rather than science-fiction because the circumstances are impossible. That carping aside, it's great fun. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the occupants of Shrimpton-in-Space have to husband their resources and find a way to survive. They form a microcosm of the England of the time including the class system and it's likely that events would unfold this way in real life if the unlikely circumstances came to pass. Given that it was written in 1935, before World War II, socialism is given a reasonably fair hearing though the agitator who tries to set fire to his Lordship's mansion isn't nice. Perhaps English people really were this nice and reasonable once and perhaps they can be again. Don't hold your breath.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00