A strange adaptation of H G Wells' account of the sights we might have seen had mankind managed to get to the moon in 1899. The movie has a dated 'modern' take on the story, involving a UN mission to the moon to investigate the claims of the eccentric fin de siecle astronauts, which duly encounters the aliens they were warned about: the Selenites. The main attraction is still Ray Harryhausen's animated beasties, although the effects are somewhat clumsy, even for the day. Lionel Jeffries gives an find out more...