Once in a New Moon

1935

1h 3m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

YOUR RATING

Rate

POPULARITY

Play trailer

0 Videos

2 Images

Science Fiction

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.

Directors

Anthony Kimmins

Writers

Owen Rutter(novel by)

Anthony Kimmins(writer by)

Stars

Eliot Makeham

Rène Ray

Derrick De Marney

See production, box office & company info

Photos2

Top cast

Harold Drake

Stella Drake

Bryan Grant

Edward Teale

Lord Bravington

Lady Bravington

Syd Parrott

Beamish

Col. Fitzgeorge

Rev. Benjamin Buffett

H. Saxon-Snell

K. Pilkington-Bigge

John Turnbull

Capt. Crump

George Spence

Villager (uncredited)

Directors

Anthony Kimmins

Writers

Owen Rutter(novel by)

Anthony Kimmins(writer by)

All cast & crew

Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

User reviews2

Review

Featured review

'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.

tmdb9644801411 Aug, 2019