Release Date: 1958-11-26
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.
Rating: 5.133 / 10
Joseph Cotten
as Victor Barbicane
George Sanders
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
Debra Paget
as Virginia Nicholl
Don Dubbins
as Ben Sharpe
Patric Knowles
as Josef Cartier
Byron Haskin - Director
Robert Blees - Screenplay
James Leicester - Screenplay
Jules Verne - Novel
Lee Zavitz - Special Effects Coordinator
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