The Mouse On the Moon

[sg1mick]

comedy spoof sci-fi/i remember watching this movie as a boy it was about a mad scientist that builds a rocket ship and his young apprentace think it was b/w



[ 13. October 2004, 21:08: Message edited by: DB7 ]

[Freddy]

evening sg1mick



Could it be Mouse on the Moon with Bernard Cribbens and David Kossoff, though this was in colour.



regards

Freddy

[DB7]

First Men in the Moon?



More of a ball than rocket.

[sg1mick]

hey freddy,

WOW u have hit the nail right on the head iv looked up this tytle and to my amazement it was the exact 1 that i was trying to find .

p,s yes it turned out to be colour afterall



THANX

Mick

[sg1mick]

hey DB7 thanx for reply also



regards

mick

[Freddy]

pleasure thumbs_u

[MrDrakesDuck]

</div><div class='quotemain'> I'm a great fan of David Kossoff and his peculiar brand of Jewish common sense - he was just the same character in A Kid for Two Farthings, and in fact I think he was always just playing David Kossoff. He used to turn up all the time on British TV when I was growing up in the 1950s. [/b]

Great actor.



Shame he didn't have good size parts in more films.



Some of the less geriatric members will know his son, Paul Kossoff, guitarist with Free who died when only 25.

</div><div class='quotemain'> People who only played themselves are not to be spurned - one just has to think of Penelope Keith, Irene Handl or Victor Maddern, all of them geniuses in their way - particularly Irene Handl. [/b]

Irene was hardly playing herself most of the time, she was middle class really.

[Freddy]

Mr. D.

Good to see you haven't taken to your bed after Tranmere's last minute defeat. In times like this the philosophy of Captain Mainwearing is always very comforting.

Freddy doh

[MrDrakesDuck]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Freddy:

Mr. D.

Good to see you haven't taken to your bed after Tranmere's last minute defeat. In times like this the philosophy of Captain Mainwearing is always very comforting.

Freddy doh [/b]

Nevermind Captain Mainwearing Freddy, I just wish the defence had heeded Corporal Jone's usual advice. frown

[niche]

Saw some of this on latenight TV a few years ago.



One or more scientists in a country village come across an anti-gravity compound and they hear of a race to the moon where a large prize is offered and decide to build a more or less conventional looking rocket but it gets launched from a chimney.



The launch is so slow, nothing at all like a rocket, it creeps out of the chimney to gasps of incredulity by onlookers and just floats up to the moon,



The guys get to the moon, land and their 'capsule' looks more like a summer house on the inside with tea service, curtains and the like.



The US gets to the moon, astronauts walk across the lunar surface and invited inside with great shock on their faces as to just how homely the british capsule is.



The odd thing is that other than those two main scenes I cant remember the name of the movie or much else about it, it might even have been in early 70's, it was definitely in colour and I do recall had me laughing a heck of a lot - and I dont remember terry thomas being in it but had some familiar comics of the time, yet a search on imdb has found nothing.



Previous someone suggested it was "First Men In The Moon" but no it wasnt so fantastic, pretty humdrum otherwise in terms of fantasy.



Another suggestion was:- "The Mouse On the Moon" which does seem familiar but I dont recall the actors and just in case my memory is just so bad, does anyone recall if they get to the moon at all and set up a homely capsule with a tea service etc...



I still think its a different movie and looking forward to tracking it down,



Thanks

[DB7]

First Men in the Moon? (sorry, missed the last bit of your post)

[GRAEME]

The "anti-gravity compound " (Cavorite) is definitely Welles' First Men in the Moon - maybe a different version from the 1964 film?

[niche]

mmmm, I might well have got my memories mixed up, heck I could have combined "First Men in the Moon" with "The Mouse On the Moon" but I have pretty vivid recollection of the british capsule with its tea, kettle, curtains etc



Did either of those two movies have anything like that scene ?



edit:

Come to think of it, getting late here at 4am, might try another lucid dream ep and see if I can watch it again, but hey there is nothing so boring as having to wade through the credits when you want to get up out of your seat and wander through the set

[GRAEME]

name='niche']mmmm, I might well have got my memories mixed up, heck I could have combined "First Men in the Moon" with "The Mouse On the Moon" but I have pretty vivid recollection of the british capsule with its tea, kettle, curtains etc



Did either of those two movies have anything like that scene ?

First Men definitely has all that! British Victorian comforts all laid on. Tassled curtains and carpet etc. Cavorite makes the capsule just rise up away from the earth through the roof of the cottage until it gets to the moon.

[GRAEME]

Hey! You can watch the whole movie on YouTube



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NMYNLc0T8&feature=related]YouTube - First Men in the Moon Movie 1964 Part 1[/ame]

[niche]

Although it sounds close and I will watch it later tonight, I dont recall any victorian era aspect to the film I saw, the US astronauts were from a conventional Gemini type craft and there were cars on the road in the english country village the rocket originated from and no fantasy aspect, ie I recall when they got to the moon there were no creatures or air etc... Thanks for the reply will take a peek at the movie and take some memory pills - now where were they. . . . here here precious

[CaptainWaggett]

Bernard Cribbins does arrive on the moon in The Mouse on the Moon and there's not much there, IIRCbut the rocks are all fairly conventional Thunderbirds-style crafts







Maybe you're remembering two different films?

[robotoid97]

It was: "The Mouse On the Moon" , I just saw it again and it fits nicely in what you mention you remember,



except,



It is not a prize that the Grand Duchy is trying to win , they ( Ron Moody as first minister) want a loan from the US of a few million and pretend to spend it on a "space program" set up as a cover so they can actually use the cash for indoor plumbing in the castle..



Terry Thomas plays a British spy.

[Gerald Lovell]

Frankie Howerd also "conveniently" appears briefly . . . !

[stud1al]

Yeah,it sounds like the lionel Jeffries film.

Used to get that one quite regularly over here in Oz but haven't seen it for a while.

A good movie.