Trying to remember the name of the film I remember from my youth. It
was an old black and white B movie, probably from the 50's.
The basic plot was that an inventor had created this thing, I think it
was a 'super magnet' of some sort. Problem is the 'super magnet' was
pulling the Moon towards the Earth and so they set out to destroy it.
They do so by using some fantasic new power generator that will
over-feed the 'super magnet', eventually destroying it. At the last
minute the inventor does the decent thing and sacrifices himself in
order to ensure the thing is destoyed and the Earth is saved.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 23 Mar 2006 11:03 PST

Hi daveuk,

Does this sound like your movie?

The Magnetic Monster (1953) 
"Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man
agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local
hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized
every metal item in the store. Investigating further, they eventually
trace the source of the magnetism to an airborn flight carrying
scientist Howard Denker, now dying of radiation poisoning, who has
carted on board with him a new radioactive element which he has
bombarded with alpha particles for 200 hours. The element, dubbed
'serranium' grows geometrically by creating matter out of energy which
it absorbs from metallic objects surrounding it. Stewart calculates
that if the substance is not destroyed soon that within 24 hours or so
it will have grown large enough to throw Earth out of its orbit."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046026/plotsummary


Looking forward to your clarification.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 23 Mar 2006 11:43 PST

More on "The Magnetic Monster" can be read here:

http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=A100934

Rainbow~

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Clarification of Question by daveuk-ga on 26 Mar 2006 02:37 PST

That is the movie I'm looking for - Thank you very much

Hi daveuk,

I'm glad I was able to find the name of the movie you were looking for.

Best regards,
Rainbow

Very quick answer and given how little information I had in the
question I'm amazed it was answered at all