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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon is a British film of genre Science fiction directed by Don Sharp released in USA on 26 july 1967 with Burl Ives
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 july 1967
Length 1h35
Directed by Don Sharp
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Sur la Lune
Rating53%
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon is a 1967 Eastman color British science fiction comedy film directed by Don Sharp and starring Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe and Terry-Thomas. It was released in the US as Those Fantastic Flying Fools, in order to capitalise on the success of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines two years earlier.
Synopsis
Phineas T. Barnum (Burl Ives) 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...Actors
Burl Ives
(Phineas T. Barnum)
Troy Donahue
(Gaylord Sullivan)
Gert Fröbe
(Professor Siegfried von Bulow)
Terry-Thomas
(Captain Sir Harry Washington-Smythe)
Hermione Gingold
(Angelica)
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