A Message from Mars (1913 film)
| A Message From Mars | |
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The film | |
| Directed by | J. Wallett Waller |
| Written by | Richard Ganthony J. Wallett Waller |
| Based on | A Message From Mars by Richard Ganthony |
| Produced by | Nicholas Ormsby-Scott |
Production company | United Kingdom Photoplays |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
A Message from Mars is a 1913 British science fiction silent film directed by J.Wallett Waller. According to the British Film Institute, it is the first British science-fiction film.
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. The story is similar to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol of 1843, with the theme that the rich should care for the poor.