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From the Earth to the Moon

  • November 1958
  • 1hr

    41mins

  • Science Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Directed by

    Byron Haskin,

    Starring

    Joseph Cotten,

    George Sanders,

    Debra Paget,

    Don Dubbins

    ...

    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.