From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
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.
Director:
Byron Haskin
Writers:
Robert Blees, James Leicester.
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Joseph Cotten as Victor Barbicane |
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George Sanders as Stuyvesant Nicholl |
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Debra Paget as Virginia Nicholl |
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Don Dubbins as Ben Sharpe |
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Patric Knowles as Josef Cartier |
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Carl Esmond as Jules Verne |
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Henry Daniell as Morgana |
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Melville Cooper as Bancroft |
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Ludwig Stössel as Aldo Von Metz |
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Morris Ankrum as President Ulysses S. Grant |
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Les Tremayne as Countdown Announcer |
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Robert Clarke as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Byron Haskin | Director |
| Writing | Robert Blees | Screenplay |
| Writing | James Leicester | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jules Verne | Novel |
| Production | Benedict Bogeaus | Producer |
| Sound | Louis Forbes | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Edwin B. DuPar | Director of Photography |
| Editing | James Leicester | Supervising Editor |
| Art | Hal Wilson Cox | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gwen Wakeling | Costume Design |
| Sound | Weldon Coe | Sound |
| Crew | Lee Zavitz | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Crew | Albert Simpson | Special Effects |
