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A Message from Mars
(1913) England
B&W : Four reels
Directed by [?] J. Wallett Walker or Wallett Waller?

Cast: Charles Hawtrey [Horace Parker], E. Holman Clark [Ramiel], Crissie Bell [Minnie], Frank Hector [Arthur Dicey], Hubert Willis [a tramp], Kate Tyndale [Aunt Martha], Evelyn Beaumont [Bella], Eileen Temple [Mrs. Claremce], R. Crompton [the God of Mars], B. Stanmore [the wounded man], Tonie Reith [the wounded man’s wife]

United Kingdom Films production. / Produced by Nicholson Ormsby-Scott. Scenario by [?] J. Wallett Walker or Wallett Waller?, from the play A Message from Mars by Richard Ganthoney. / Released July 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as A Message from Mars (1903). The play was subsequently filmed as A Message from Mars (1921).

Comedy: Fantasy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Science fiction

Listing updated: 7 May 2021.

References: Gifford-British n. 04253; Robertson-Guinness p. 7; Tarbox-Lost p. 148 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.