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From the Earth to the Moon

The Amazing Story of the Boldest Adventure Dared by Man!

1958★ 5.3 · 341h 41mScience FictionAdventure

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.

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Cast

George Sanders
as Stuyvesant Nicholl

Debra Paget
as Virginia Nicholl

Joseph Cotten
as Victor Barbicane

Henry Daniell
as Morgana

Morris Ankrum
as President Ulysses S. Grant

Les Tremayne
as Countdown Announcer

Melville Cooper
as Bancroft

Robert Clarke
as Narrator (voice)

Carl Esmond
as Jules Verne

Patric Knowles
as Josef Cartier

Ludwig Stössel
as Aldo Von Metz

Don Dubbins
as Ben Sharpe