FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
- FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
Film (1958). Waverly/RKO. Dir Byron HASKIN, starring Joseph Cotton, George Sanders, Deborah Paget. Screenplay Robert Blees, James Leicester, adapted from Jules VERNE's De la terre a la lune (1865) and Autour de la lune (1870), the two published together in English translation as From the Earth to the Moon (1873). 100 mins. Colour.
Using a new explosive, a projectile carrying human passengers is fired at the Moon from a huge cannon. Paget plays a pretty stowaway. The film, shot in Mexico, is slow-moving and has painful dialogue; it is perhaps the dullest sf movie ever made. There are no scenes on the Moon. A comic version, bearing no relation to Verne's novel, was the UK Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967; vt Those Fantastic Flying Fools) dir Don Sharp, in which a seriesof farcical misadventures - the rocket lands in Russia, not on the Moon - keeps the story effectively Earthbound.
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