Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Jul 13, 1967

1h 59m

★ 5.5

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...

Genres

Comedy

Adventure

Fantasy

Production Companies

Jules Verne Films Ltd

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Cast

Phineas T. Barnum

Burl Ives

Gaylord Sullivan

Troy Donahue

Professor Siegfried von Bulow

Gert Fröbe

Angelica

Hermione Gingold

Sir Charles Dillworthy

Lionel Jeffries

The Duke of Barset

Dennis Price

Madelaine

Daliah Lavi

Warrant Officer

Stratford Johns

Bertram Grundle

Graham Stark

Captain Sir Harry Washington-Smythe

Terry-Thomas

Anna Lindstrom

Renate von Holt

General Tom Thumb

Jimmy Clitheroe

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