From The Earth To The Moon (1958)

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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. Title: From The Earth To The Moon Release Date: November 26, 1958 Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Sci-Fi All Genres: Sci-Fi Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 5.1 Brimstone Pit Rating: 6.1 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With F MPAA Rating: G Director(s): Byron Haskin 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 Stossel ...Aldo Von Metz (as Ludwig Stossel) Morris Ankrum ...President Ulysses S. Grant Robert Clarke ...Narrator (voice) Les Tremayne ...Countdown Announcer Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Benedict Bogeaus Writer(s): Jules Verne Robert Blees James Leicester Composer(s): Louis Forbes Movie Trivia: This was one of the last films produced for RKO. By the time it was completed, RKO had ceased production and distribution. It was released through Warner Brothers. This went into production as RKO was preparing to shut down. It was believed to have had a much larger budget which was later cut. This greatly affected the quality of the special effects. Among the last minute cost-cutting measures inflicted upon this film was the elimination of all scenes taking place on the moon. Some of the music is actually the "electronic tonalities" created by Louis Barron and Bebe Barron for Forbidden Planet (1956). IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Civil War, Moon, Sabotage, Cannon, Travel To The Moon  ...[more] Keywords All: Beautiful Woman, Explosive, Space, Explosives Expert, Foreign Language Adaptation, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Based On Novel Seen it? Rate it Currently 6.10/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 6.1 out of 10.0 - 52 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST