A Trip to the Moon (1964)

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United States

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How it feels

This hour-long TV film adapts Jules Verne's 1865 novel about traveling to the moon. It uses the Victorian setting to joke about the 1960s space race between the US and the Soviet Union. Four comedians play all the characters.

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What happens

"A Trip to the Moon" is a 1964 television science fiction comedy film, produced as an episode of the CBS series Chronicle. The script was written by Jonathan Miller and Robert Goldman, based on Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon. All characters are portrayed by Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Miller, and Dudley Moore, who had first worked together in the revue Beyond the Fringe. The hour-long show adapts the plot of Verne's novel to comment satirically on the Moon race then underway between the United States and the Soviet Union, juxtaposing Victorian ideas and aesthetics with contemporary themes of space travel. It received mixed reviews, and Miller later dismissed it as a failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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