Post by teleadm on Oct 9, 2018 17:24:46 GMT
Five Weeks in a Balloon 1962, directed by Irwin Allen, based on a novel by Jules Verne, staring Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Richard Haydn, BarBara Luna, Billy Gilbert, Herbert Marshall, Reginald Owen, Henry Daniell, Mike Mazurki and others.
Matinee adventure. In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson (Hardwicke) to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there, and stop slave traders.
It should be said that this movie is not politically corect by today's standards, there is quite a few Arabian stereotypes along the journey. Besides that, it's rather harmless entertainment. Fabian was obviously cast to attract teen audiences, but what is fun is offcourse all those familiar faces of the older actors in both big and small roles, and Hardwicke is actually funny as the inventor who can't stand the stuffy British represantative (Haydn). Even if they look a lot on maps, one never really get's any feeling where the actually are, most of it was filmed in America, with African scenery edited in from second-unit or traveloges, plus they edited in a waterfall that is in South America and nobody noticed, and some elephants are Asians, not African.
Matinee adventure. In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson (Hardwicke) to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there, and stop slave traders.
It should be said that this movie is not politically corect by today's standards, there is quite a few Arabian stereotypes along the journey. Besides that, it's rather harmless entertainment. Fabian was obviously cast to attract teen audiences, but what is fun is offcourse all those familiar faces of the older actors in both big and small roles, and Hardwicke is actually funny as the inventor who can't stand the stuffy British represantative (Haydn). Even if they look a lot on maps, one never really get's any feeling where the actually are, most of it was filmed in America, with African scenery edited in from second-unit or traveloges, plus they edited in a waterfall that is in South America and nobody noticed, and some elephants are Asians, not African.