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From the Earth to the Moon(1958)
Status: Released
Date: 1958-11-26
52%
32 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
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.
Languages: English, Italian.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Waverly Productions
Movie: From the Earth to the Moon
Top 10 Billed 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
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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.
Release Date
1958-11-26
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5.188
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The Amazing Story of the Boldest Adventure Dared by Man!
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