Five Weeks in a Balloon

Aug 22, 1962

1h 41m

★ 5.3

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.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Family

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Irwin Allen Productions

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Cast

Donald O'Shay

Red Buttons

Susan Gale

Barbara Eden

Fergusson

Cedric Hardwicke

Ahmed

Peter Lorre

Sir Henry Vining

Richard Haydn

Makia

BarBara Luna

Jacques

Fabian

Sultan/Actioneer

Billy Gilbert

The Prime Minister

Herbert Marshall

Consul

Reginald Owen

Sheik Ageiba

Henry Daniell

Chief Slave (uncredited)

Jonathan Gilmore

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