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.

Directed by Byron Haskin

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Cast

Joseph Cotten

Victor Barbicane

George Sanders

Stuyvesant Nicholl

Debra Paget

Virginia Nicholl

Don Dubbins

Ben Sharpe

Patric Knowles

Josef Cartier

Carl Esmond

Jules Verne

Henry Daniell

Morgana

Melville Cooper

Bancroft

Ludwig Stössel

Aldo Von Metz

Morris Ankrum

President Ulysses S. Grant

Les Tremayne

Countdown Announcer

Robert Clarke

Narrator (voice)

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