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...
Burl Ives
as Phineas T. Barnum
Troy Donahue
as Gaylord Sullivan
Gert Fröbe
as Professor Siegfried von Bulow
Hermione Gingold
as Angelica
Lionel Jeffries
as Sir Charles Dillworthy
Dennis Price
as The Duke of Barset
Daliah Lavi
as Madelaine
Stratford Johns
as Warrant Officer
Graham Stark
as Bertram Grundle
Terry-Thomas
as Captain Sir Harry Washington-Smythe
Renate von Holt
as Anna Lindstrom
Jimmy Clitheroe
as General Tom Thumb