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Once in a New Moon
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Wikipedia article
'Once in a New Moon' is a 1935 British science fiction film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Eliot Makeham, Ren Ray and Morton Selten. It is a quota quickie, made at Shepperton Studios.Wood p.83
Plot
When a dead star passes planet Earth, its magnetic pull dislodges the (fictitious) English town of Shrimpton-on-the-Sea and causes it to break away and become its own miniature globe in orbit around the Earth. The village is now an island, the only land, and the rest of the mini planet is water which can be circumnavigated in a day. Sail straight and you eventually find the town again. The sun rises and sets every few hours and the Earth can be seen as a new moon in the sky. Otherwise, life is as before.
As panic sets in, the upper and lower classes of the village set about forming a new government. However, stubbornness, snobbery, distrust, paranoia and petty jealousy soon lead the population of the newly-named Shrimpton-in-Space to the brink of civil war.
Cast
* Eliot Makeham as Harold Drake
* Ren Ray as Stella Drake
* Morton Selten as Lord Bravington
* Wally Patch as Syd Parrott
* Derrick De Marney as Hon. Bryan-Grant
* John Clements as Edward Teale
* Mary Hinton as Lady Bravington
* Gerald Barry as Col. Fitzgeorge
* Richard Goolden as Rev. Benjamin Buffett
* Harold Saxon-Snell as K. Pilkington-Bigge
* John Turnbull as Capt. Crump
* William Fazan
* Ralph Howard
* Franklyn Kelsey
* Vernon Kelso
* Cecil Landau
* Charles Paton
* Walter Roy
* Thorley Walters
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.
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