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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.
Theatrical
Nov 26, 1958
Director
Writers
Producer
Music
Louis Forbes
Studio
Waverly Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
Cast
Full credits →J
Joseph Cotten
Victor Barbicane
G
George Sanders
Stuyvesant Nicholl
D
Debra Paget
Virginia Nicholl
D
Don Dubbins
Ben Sharpe
P
Patric Knowles
Josef Cartier
C
Carl Esmond
Jules Verne
H
Henry Daniell
Morgana
M
Melville Cooper
Bancroft
L
Ludwig Stössel
Aldo Von Metz
M
Morris Ankrum
President Ulysses S. Grant
L
Les Tremayne
Countdown Announcer
R
Robert Clarke
Narrator (voice)
