From the Earth to the Moon (film)
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| Directed by | Byron Haskin |
| Produced by | Benedict Bogeaus |
| Screenplay by | Robert Blees James Leicester |
| Story by | Jules Verne |
| Starring |
Joseph Cotten George Sanders Debra Paget |
| Narrated by | Robert Clarke (uncredited) |
| Music by | Louis Forbes |
| Cinematography | Edwin B. DuPar |
| Edited by | James Leicester |
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Waverly Productions
RKO Radio Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
From the Earth to the Moon is a 1958 American Technicolor science fiction film, produced by Benedict Bogeaus, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, and Debra Paget. The film originated at RKO Pictures, but when RKO went into bankruptcy it was released by Warner Brothers.
From the Earth to the Moon is the only film adaptation of the Jules Verne science fiction novel of the same name.
Shortly after the end of the American Civil War, munitions producer Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotten) announces that he has invented a new explosive, "Power X", which he claims is much more powerful than any previously devised. Metallurgist Stuyvesant Nicholl (George Sanders) scoffs at Barbicane's claims and offers a wager of $100,000 that it cannot destroy his invention, the hardest metal in existence. Barbicane stages a demonstration using a puny cannon and demolishes Nicholl's material (and a portion of the countryside).
President Ulysses S. Grant (Morris Ankrum) requests that Barbicane cease development of his invention after several nervous countries warn that continuing work on Power X could be considered an act of war. Barbicane agrees, but when he discovers that pieces of Nicholl's metal retrieved from the demonstration have somehow been converted into an extremely strong yet lightweight ceramic, he cannot resist the chance to construct a spaceship to travel to the Moon. He recruits Nicholl to help build the ship. Meanwhile, Nicholl's daughter Virginia (Debra Paget) and Barbicane's assistant Ben Sharpe (Don Dubbins) are attracted to each other.
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