For Journey #3 of our cinematic odyssey, we strapped ourselves into a rickety metal tube and aimed directly at our celestial neighbor via the 1958 classic, .
He builds a massive "Columbiad" cannon in Florida. But when a swashbuckling rival, Captain Nicholl (George Sanders), tries to sabotage the project, they make a bet. Instead of a duel, they decide to ride the bullet together, taking a stowaway (a plucky French chemist) along for the ride. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie
A dry martini and a skeptical look at your physics textbook. Join me next week for Journey #4, where we go from the Moon to the Black Hole of Event Horizon . Pack heavier pants. For Journey #3 of our cinematic odyssey, we
The most fascinating part of the journey is the moral ambiguity. Barbicane isn't a peaceful explorer; he is a weapons manufacturer pivoting to exploration because the war ended. It raises a question the film doesn't bother to answer: Can you build paradise with the tools of hell? Instead of a duel, they decide to ride
Journey #3: Shooting the Moon – The Guts and Glory of From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
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Post-Civil War America. The War is over, but the arms race has just begun. Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotten), the head of the Baltimore Gun Club, is bored. He has invented every deadly weapon known to man, and peacetime is bad for business.
