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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
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.
Plot summary.
In Victorian England, everyone is trying to make new scientific discoveries, including monumental
of butterflies, birds, and a progression of historical aircraft ending with a rocket ship travelling through space and landing on the Moon.
The astronaut/cosmonaut leaves his spacecraft and sights other footsteps on the Moon leading him to an old phonograph, then a crashed rocket with a plaque reading Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon". Taken to a dinner table, the surprised space traveller meets the characters from Verne's book and Baron Munchausen. Inviting him to their table, the characters believe that the cosmonaut