A Message From Mars, 1913

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.