From the Earth to the Moon
“The Amazing Story of the Boldest Adventure Dared by Man!”
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.
A charmingly earnest, retro-futuristic adventure. It captures a bygone era's optimistic vision of space travel, blending scientific ambition with a touch of old-fashioned melodrama and thrilling, if quaint, suspense.
