Blast Off
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Blast Off (1967)
aka Those Fantastic Flying Fools
AIP Production #6706
Original Story by Peter Welbeck (Harry Alan Towers)
inspired by the writings of Jules Verne
Screenplay by Dave Freeman
Produced by Harry Alan Towers
Directed by Don Sharp
Starring:
Burl Ives as Phineas T. Barnum
Troy Donahue as Gaylord
Gert Frobe as Professor 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 Starke as Grundle
Terry-Thomas as Captain Sir Harry Washington Smythe
Additional Cast:
Jimmy Clitheroe as General Tom Thumb
Judy Cornwell as Electra
Joachim Teege as Bulgeroff
Edward De Souza as Henry
Joan Sterndale Bennett as Queen Victoria
Allan Cuthbertson as Scuttling
Renata Holt as Anna
Derek Francis as Puddleby
Anthony Woodruff as Announcer
Hugh Walters as Carruthers
Donald Bisset as Flood
Cecil Nash as Chambers
Vernon Hayden as Mr. Brown
John Franklin as Railway Guard
Harry Brogan as Professor Dingle
Derek Young as French Officer Guard
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Our open and close is comprised of clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)
