
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.

Joseph Cotten
Victor Barbicane

George Sanders
Stuyvesant Nicholl

Debra Paget
Virginia Nicholl

Don Dubbins
Ben Sharpe

Patric Knowles
Josef Cartier

Carl Esmond
Jules Verne

Henry Daniell
Morgana

Melville Cooper
Bancroft

Ludwig Stössel
Aldo Von Metz

Morris Ankrum
President Ulysses S. Grant

Les Tremayne
Countdown Announcer

Robert Clarke
Narrator (voice)
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