From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

★ 5.3IMDb Score
Released:1958-11-26
Duration:101 min
Director:Byron Haskin
Actors:Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Don Dubbins, Patric Knowles
Production:Waverly Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Overview:

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.

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