John Farrow and Kevin McClory also worked uncredited on the direction. Ed Murrow, Jack Oakie, George Raft, Gilbert Roland, Cesar Romero, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Ronald Squire, Basil Sydney and Harcourt Williams. The film’s seven-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, is created by award-winning designer Saul Bass.Īlso in the cast are Charles Boyer, Joe E Brown, Martine Carol, John Carradine, Charles Coburn, Ronald Colman, Melville Cooper, Noel Coward, Ava Gardner, Reginald Denny, Andy Devine, Marlene Dietrich, Luis Dominguin, John Gielgud, Hermione Gingold, Jose Greco, Cedric Hardwicke, Trevor Howard, Glynis Johns, Buster Keaton, Evelyn Keyes, Beatrice Lillie, Peter Lorre, Edmund Lowe, A E Matthews, Mike Mazurki, Tim McCoy, Victor McLaglen, John Mills, Alan Mowbray. The score is composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography is by Lionel Lindon. But, nevertheless, it is still entertaining in its lumbering, old-fashioned sort of way. Basically, this is a nice small-time movie masquerading as classic blockbuster vintage entertainment. The other main stars are Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda and Robert Newton as Inspector Fix, with Finlay Currie as Reform Club member Andrew Stuart and Robert Morley as Bank of England Governor Gauthier Ralph, another Reform Club member.īut James Poe, John Farrow and S J Perelman’s screenplay is low on wit, and is often slack and flabby, while Anderson’s direction needs more incisiveness and dynamism. Cantinflas is fun too, if to a lesser extent, as his new, devoted valet, recent Latin immigrant Passepartout, who possesses some useful unusual skills. This is arrogant and rash, as losing the bet would ruin him financially. Ideal choice David Niven is good fun as Jules Verne’s English Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg who takes a highly publicised £20,000 wager from his fellow members at the London Reform Club that he can traverse the globe in 80 days. There’s plenty of time to spot and count them, and that’s amusing time-passer. Producer-showman Michael Todd, a Broadway impresario who had never before produced a movie, assembles 50 guest stars in a publicity-conscious move that helps to fill the 177-minute movie’s huge wide-open spaces. Around the World in 80 Days **** (1956, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 2452ĭirector Michael Anderson’s 1956 Technicolor epic action adventure comedy film triumphed on Academy Award night, winning five rather undeserved Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.
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