![]() 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. 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 5 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 epic picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. Their path from London and back includes stops in Paris, Turkey, India, China and the USA.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. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the "around the world" trip as an excuse to escape. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that's following them. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face. Set in 1872, the story focuses on Passepartout, a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg, who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemen's club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. ![]() Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneĪround the World in 80 Days is a 2004 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel of the same name as well as the 1956 film. ![]()
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