From the Earth to the Moon
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.
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Carl Esmond, Debra Paget, Don Dubbins, George Sanders, Henry Daniell, Joseph Cotten, Ludwig Stössel, Melville Cooper, Morris Ankrum, Patric Knowles
