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.

Details

Cast

Joseph Cotten

George Sanders

Debra Paget

Don Dubbins

Patric Knowles

Carl Esmond

Henry Daniell

Melville Cooper

Ludwig Stössel

Morris Ankrum