(From the Earth to the Moon)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Science Fiction,

Adventure

Runtime:

101 minutes

Year:

1958

Directors:

Byron Haskin

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Production companies:

Waverly Productions,

RKO Radio Pictures

Actors:

Victor Barbicane

Stuyvesant Nicholl

Virginia Nicholl

Ben Sharpe

Josef Cartier

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