Overview
Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel invention, the telescope, that is being sold in Amsterdam.
Cast
- Peter Brocco as Old Cardinal
- Stephen Brown as Street Singer
- Hugo Haas as Cardinal Barberini (Later Pope Urban VIII)
- Frances Heflin as Virginia Galilei
- Charles Laughton as Galileo Galilei
- Eda Reiss Merin as Mrs. Sarti
- William Phipps as Andrea Sarti