Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
101 Min
Synopsis
On the lam from creditors back home in America, dodgy Phineas T. Barnum (Burl Ives) convinces a wealthy English duke (Dennis Price) to finance a harebrained plan to blast a man to the moon from a gigantic cannon. But rivals want to beat Barnum into space, and soon intrigue and other troubles may spell doom for his latest scheme. Don Sharp directs this star-studded comedy based on the works of Jules Verne. Lionel Jeffries co-stars.
Director
Don Sharp
Donald Sharp (born 19 April 1922, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a British film director.
His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the sixties, and included The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965). Also in 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, here played by Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the first sequel The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966).
Among his other credits are Curse of the Fly, the spy-comedy Our Man in Marrakesh (1966), the fantasy Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon (1967) and the 1978 remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell. He made another foray into spy culture with his feature-length reprise of the gritty Cold War TV drama, Callan (1974) starring Edward Woodward.
He also played the character Stephen “Mitch” Mitchell in the 1953 British science fiction radio series, Journey Into Space.
Sharp also directed the first great British rock ‘n’ roll… read more
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