A Distant Trumpet is a far cry from the grand old westerns of yesterday. Taken from Paul Morgan’s engrossing historical novel, which told how U.S. cavalrymen in the 1880s subdued one of the last ...
Showman P.T. Barnum (Burl Ives) plans with a balloonist (Troy Donahue) and an inventor (Gert Frobe) to send Gen. Tom Thumb in a rocket to the moon.
Like Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter and Troy Donahue, he was discovered (and given a studly stage name) by talent agent Henry Willson.