From the Earth to the Moon
1958, Film, 101 min, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, English, United States, MoviePedia score 59
The Amazing Story of the Boldest Adventure Dared by Man!
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
Directed by Byron Haskin
Cast
- Joseph Cotten as Victor Barbicane
- George Sanders as Stuyvesant Nicholl
- Debra Paget as Virginia Nicholl
- Don Dubbins as Ben Sharpe
- Patric Knowles as Josef Cartier
- Carl Esmond as Jules Verne
- Henry Daniell as Morgana
- Melville Cooper as Bancroft
- Ludwig Stössel as Aldo Von Metz
- Morris Ankrum as US President
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