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Once in a New Moon (Original title)
Date: 27 May 1935 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Anthony Kimmins

Synopsis: When the small town of Shrimpton-on-Sea 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.

Genre:
Science Fiction

Subject:
Politics
Releases
Date: 1935Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 63 mins Length: 5778 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Fox Film Company Ltd.
Date: October 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 64 mins 13 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (7)
A Fox British Picture: Fox-British Pictures, Presents: Fox Film Co. Ltd., From the novel 'Lucky Star' by: Owen Rutter, Musical Score: Walford Hyden, [Recorded] on: Visatone Sound System, Produced and Recorded at: Sound City Shepperton
Cast (19)
Eliot Makeham (Harold Drake), Rene Ray (Stella Drake), Morton Selten (Lord Roland Bravington), Mary Hinton (Lady Bravington), Derrick de Marney (Hon Bryan Grant), Gerald Barry (Colonel Fitzgeorge), Richard Goolden (Rev Benjamin Buffett), Cecil Landau, Saxon Snell (K. Pilkington-Bigge), Thorley Walters (Beamish), Wally Patch (Syd Parrott), John Clements (Edward Teale), Vernon Kelso, Charles Paton, Walter Roy, Franklyn Kelsey, Ralph Howard, John Turnbull (Captain Crump), William Fazan