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From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Directed by Byron Haskin
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.
Rated NR | Length 101 minutes
Actors
Joseph Cotten | George Sanders | Debra Paget | Don Dubbins | Patric Knowles | Carl Esmond | Henry Daniell | Melville Cooper | Ludwig Stössel | Morris Ankrum | Les Tremayne | Robert Clarke