A Message from Mars (1913 film)

Not to be confused with A Message from Mars (1903 film).

A Message From Mars
The film
Directed byJ. Wallett Waller
Written byRichard Ganthony
J. Wallett Waller
Based onA Message From Mars by Richard Ganthony
Produced byNicholas Ormsby-Scott
Production
company
United Kingdom Photoplays
Release date
  • July 1913 (1913-07)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

A Message from Mars is a 1913 British science fiction silent film directed by J.Wallett Waller.[1] According to the British Film Institute, it is the first British science-fiction film.[2]

The film was written by Waller and Richard Ganthony, based on Ganthony's 1899 play A Message from Mars. The play had been issued as a book in 1912 credited to Lester Lurgan (aka Mabel Knowles) and Ganthony.[3] The story is similar to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol of 1843, with the theme that the rich should care for the poor.[2]

  1. ^ "A Message from Mars". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference hhh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "SFE: Lurgan, Lester". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 December 2022.