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Five Weeks in a Balloon poster

Five Weeks in a Balloon(1962)

NRAugust 22, 19621h 41m

Action Adventure Comedy Family

55%User score 55 percent

User Score

34 votes

DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!

Overview

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

Director: Irwin Allen
Writers: Albert Gail, Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett

Top Billed Cast

Red Buttons
Donald O'Shay
Barbara Eden
Susan Gale
Cedric Hardwicke
Fergusson
Peter Lorre
Ahmed

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Richard Haydn

Sir Henry Vining

BarBara Luna

Makia

Fabian

Jacques

Billy Gilbert

Sultan/Actioneer

Herbert Marshall

The Prime Minister

Reginald Owen

Consul

Henry Daniell

Sheik Ageiba

Jonathan Gilmore

Chief Slave (uncredited)

Mike Mazurki

Slave Captain

Ben Astar

Myanga

Raymond Bailey

Randolph

Sheila Allen

Courtier (uncredited)

Joe Brooks

Villager (uncredited)

Robert Dowdell

Bearded Arab wearing Blue Keffiyeh (uncredited)

Carol Henry

Buggy Driver (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Balloon Exhibition Spectator (uncredited)

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: Five Weeks in a Balloon
Original language: English
Production: 20th Century Fox, Irwin Allen Productions

Keywords

based on novel or book
africa
jules verne
chimpanzee
hot air balloon
exploration
zanzibar
19th century
victorian era

exploration of africa