From the Earth to the Moon

Nov 26, 1958

1h 41m

★ 5.2

The Amazing Story of the Boldest Adventure Dared by Man!

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Adventure

Production Companies

Waverly Productions

RKO Radio Pictures

From the Earth to the Moon Trailers

Cast

Victor Barbicane

Joseph Cotten

Stuyvesant Nicholl

George Sanders

Virginia Nicholl

Debra Paget

Ben Sharpe

Don Dubbins

Josef Cartier

Patric Knowles

Jules Verne

Carl Esmond

Morgana

Henry Daniell

Bancroft

Melville Cooper

Aldo Von Metz

Ludwig Stössel

President Ulysses S. Grant

Morris Ankrum

Countdown Announcer

Les Tremayne

Narrator (voice)

Robert Clarke

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