From the Earth to the Moon (1958) on Netflix
NR19581h 41mAdventureFantasySci-Fi
Munitions maker Victor Barbicane unveils Power X, an explosive that shatters rival Stuyvesant Nicholl's metal. Asked to stop, he builds a ship to the Moon and recruits Nicholl to help.
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Plot summary
Shortly after the American Civil War, munitions producer Victor Barbicane announces Power X, an explosive he says is stronger than anything built before. Metallurgist Stuyvesant Nicholl scoffs and wagers one hundred thousand dollars that Power X cannot break his hardest metal. A demonstration with a small cannon destroys the metal and part of the countryside. President Ulysses S. Grant asks Barbicane to halt, warning that nervous foreign governments could treat further work as an act of war. Barbicane notices that pieces of Nicholl's metal have become a strong, light ceramic, and he proposes a ship to the Moon, enlisting Nicholl to help build it. Nicholl's daughter Virginia and Barbicane's assistant Ben Sharpe are drawn to each other as the vessel takes shape.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
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- Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was brought in to give the script "a quick polish", and location shooting for From the Earth to the Moon took place in Mexico.
- Production of the film originated at RKO Pictures, but when RKO went into bankruptcy the film was acquired and released by Warner Bros. Pictures instead.
- Various electronic sound effects in the film score were reused from MGM's soundtrack for Forbidden Planet (1956), composed by Louis and Bebe Barron.
