Directed by:
Don SharpCinematography:
Reginald H. WyerComposer:
John ScottCast:
Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Daliah Lavi, Stratford Johns, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, Maurice Denham (more)VOD (1)
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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. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Burl Ives
USA
Best movies:
The Big Country (1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Roots (1977) (series)
Troy Donahue
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Gert Fröbe
German Empire
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Goldfinger (1964)
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
Hermione Gingold
UK
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
A Little Night Music (1977)
Daliah Lavi
Palestine
Best movies:
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Shots in 3/4 Time (1965)
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Stratford Johns
South Africa
Best movies:
The One That Got Away (1957)
Cromwell (1970)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Lionel Jeffries
UK
Best movies:
Lust for Life (1956)
The 13 Chairs (1969)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Dennis Price
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Maurice Denham
UK
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Man with a Million (1954)
Edward de Souza
UK
Best movies:
If Tomorrow Comes (1986) (series)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Jane Eyre (1996)
Judy Cornwell
UK
Best movies:
Jane Eyre (1983) (series)
Cry Freedom (1987)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) (TV movie)
Allan Cuthbertson
Australia
Best movies:
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Room at the Top (1959)
Freud (1962)
Donald Bisset
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Les Miserables (1978) (TV movie)
Ragtime (1981)
Derek Francis
UK
Best movies:
What's Good for the Goose (1969)
Press for Time (1966)
A Christmas Carol (1984) (TV movie)
Graham Stark
UK
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Becket (1964)
Joachim Teege
German Empire
Best movies:
Herrliche Zeiten im Spessart (1967)
The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
Anthony Wooddruff
UK
Best movies:
This Sporting Life (1963)
Sweeney! (1977)
The Tall Guy (1989)
Hugh Walters
UK
Best movies:
1984 (1984)
Firelight (1997)
The Missionary (1982)
Joan Sterndale-Bennett
UK
Best movies:
Angels One Five (1952)
Brighton Rock (1947)