Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962, Film, 101 min, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 61
DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!
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.
Directed by Irwin Allen
Cast
- Red Buttons as Donald O'Shay
- Fabian as Jacques
- Barbara Eden as Susan Gale
- Cedric Hardwicke as Fergusson
- Peter Lorre as Ahmed
- Richard Haydn as Sir Henry Vining
- BarBara Luna as Makia
- Billy Gilbert as Auctioneer
- Herbert Marshall as The Prime Minister
- Reginald Owen as Consul
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