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Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

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

5.4(31)1h 41mAugust 22, 1962

Action Adventure Comedy Family

Irwin Allen

Director

Albert Gail, Charles Bennett, Irwin Allen

Writers

Rate

Diary

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.

Cast

Red Buttons

Donald O'Shay

Barbara Eden

Susan Gale

Cedric Hardwicke

Fergusson

Peter Lorre

Ahmed

Five Weeks in a Balloon · Cinemalant

RH

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)

Media

Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: August 22, 1962
Production: 20th Century Fox, Irwin Allen Productions
Country: United States of America

Keywords

based on novel or bookafricajules vernechimpanzeehot air balloonexplorationzanzibar19th centuryvictorian eraexploration of africa

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