From the Earth to the Moon
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1958-11-26
Runtime: 101 mins
Director: Byron Haskin
Spoken language: English, Italiano
Genres: Science Fiction, Adventure
Original title: From the Earth to the Moon
Production Companies: Waverly Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Joseph Cotten
George Sanders
Debra Paget
Don Dubbins
Patric Knowles
Carl Esmond
Henry Daniell
Melville Cooper
Ludwig Stössel
Morris Ankrum
Les Tremayne
Robert Clarke
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