A brand new restoration of JULES VERNE'S ROCKET TO THE MOON based on an original work by the great pre-science-fiction author Jules Verne, is a British comedy directed by Don Sharp (Rasputin: The Mad Monk) starring Oscar winner Burl Ives (Cat On A Hit Tin Roof, The Big Country), Troy Donahue (A Summer Place) and Gert Fr�be (Goldfinger). Contestants from all over the world compete in a competition to be the first scientist to construct and launch a rocket to the moon. Phineas T. Barnum, the great American showman, comes to England to escape his creditors. Always on the lookout for an opportunity to make money, he enters the competition in an ambitious attempt to launch a rocket to the moon with the aid of a powerful, new explosive. Money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it even starts.
Director: Dan Sharp
Producer: Harry Alan Towers
Writer: David Freeman
Music: John Scott
Cinematographer: Reginald H. Wyer
Actor: Burl Ives
Actor: Terry-Thomas
Actor: Gert Fröbe
Actor: Judy Cornwell
Actor: Allan Cuthbertson
Actor: Troy Donahue
Actor: Derek Francis
Actor: Hermione Gingold
Actor: Lionel Jeffries
Actor: Stratford Johns
Actor: Daliah Lavi
Actor: Dennis Price
Actor: Graham Stark
Actor: Joan Sterndale-Bennett
Actor: Edward de Souza