Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967 · 1h 59m · Not Rated
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Don Sharp
Overview
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
Director and cast
- Don Sharp Director
- Burl Ives as Phineas T. Barnum
- Troy Donahue as Gaylord Sullivan
- Gert Fröbe as Professor Siegfried von Bulow
- Hermione Gingold as Angelica
- Lionel Jeffries as Sir Charles Dillworthy
- Dennis Price as The Duke of Barset
- Daliah Lavi as Madelaine
- Stratford Johns as Warrant Officer
- Graham Stark as Bertram Grundle
- Terry-Thomas as Captain Sir Harry Washington-Smythe
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