Journey 3: From The Earth To The Moon Movie Info

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.

This is pre-NASA. This is pre-Sputnik panic (just barely). This is a film made when we assumed space travel would be an extension of artillery science. The aesthetic is Victorian-industrial. Rivets. Steam. Gunpowder. 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. He builds a massive "Columbiad" cannon in Florida

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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. This is pre-NASA

There is a specific kind of magic found in old sci-fi. Not the sleek, CGI-polished kind we get today, but the gritty, brass-and-bolts kind. The kind where you can practically smell the rocket fuel and cigarette smoke in the control room.