Joining them are Shirley MacLaine as the beautiful Indian Princess Aouda and Robert Newton as the determined but hapless Detective Fix, in his last role. Fogg is the classic Victorian upper-class English gentleman, well-dressed, well-spoken, and extremely punctual, whereas his servant Passepartout (who has an eye for the ladies) provides much of the comic relief as a "jack of all trades" for the film in contrast to his master's strict formality. The film boasts an all-star cast, with David Niven and Cantinflas in the lead roles of Fogg and Passepartout. Passepartout and Aouda then arrive behind him, shocking everyone, as no woman has ever entered the Reform Club before. Fogg rushes to the club, arriving just before the 8:45 pm chime. Thus, there is still just enough time to reach the Reform Club and win the bet. Fogg then realizes that by traveling east towards the rising sun and crossing the International Date Line, he has gained a day. Salvation comes when Passepartout is shocked to be informed that the next day is actually Sunday. Upon returning to London, Fogg asks Passepartout to arrange a church wedding for the next day, Monday.
#Around the world in 80 days vinyl free
Although Fogg is exculpated and free to go, he now has insufficient time to reach London before his deadline, and so has lost everything but the enduring love of the winsome Aouda. They arrive in Liverpool, where, still with just enough time left to travel to London and win his wager, Fogg is promptly arrested by the diligent yet misguided Inspector Fix.ĭetaining Fogg at the police station, the humiliated Fix discovers that the real culprit has already been apprehended by police in Brighton. Fogg buys the ship and then instructs the crew to take everything that burns, including lifeboats, to provide fuel. Alas, they run out of coal mid-ocean and the ship stops. Reaching New York, they arrange their passage on a cargo steamship travelling to Venezuela - Fogg bribes the captain to go to England. The three then travel to Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and the Wild West (including the Sioux Nation). In India, Fogg and Passepartout rescue beautiful young widow Aouda from being forced into a funeral pyre with her late husband. Meanwhile, back in London, suspicion grows that Fogg has stolen £55,000 (around £5.2 million today ) from the Bank of England so Police Inspector Fix is sent out by Scotland Yard to trail him (starting in Suez) but must keep waiting for a warrant to arrive so he can arrest Fogg in the British controlled ports they visit. Later, Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight. Fogg buys it and they fly over the Alps drinking champagne.īlown off-course, the two accidentally end up in Spain, where we see a table-top flamenco sequence performed in a bar. The Thomas Cook agent who assists them offers to hire or sell them his hot air balloon. Having reached Paris they hear that a tunnel under the Alps is blocked. Together with his resourceful French valet, Passepartout, Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe generously spending money to encourage others to help him get to his destinations faster so he can accommodate tight steamship schedules. Met with scepticism, he makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £1.9 million today ) with four fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can make the journey and arrive back at the club eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening. In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film's six-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by award-winning designer Saul Bass.
The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography (shot in Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon. The screenplay, based on the classic 1873 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and S.J. The picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure- comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
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