Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven and Cantinflas. The screenplay is based on the classic 1873 novel of the same name by Jules Verne. The movie won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was released in the United States on November 14, 1956.
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Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven and Cantinflas. The screenplay is based on the classic 1873 novel of the same name by Jules Verne. 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 role of Passepartout was greatly expanded from the novel to accommodate Cantin flas, the most famous Latin-American comedian at the time. The movie won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was released in the United States on November 14, 1956. The opening credits feature footage from A Trip to the Moon, by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the moon by Jule Verne, which was published in 1873. The soundtrack was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography was by Lionel Lindon, with the music score composed byVictor Young and Victor Young on the soundtrack for the film being released by United Artists on November 13, 1956, on the same day as the opening credits of “Around the world in 80 days” The film is released in some non-English speaking nations, such as Spain, where the character of PasSEpartout has been changed to the Spanish Juan Picaporte, the name of the French Passe partout in the French version of the novel. In the Spanish version, his name was changed from the French Juan PicAPorte to theSpanish Juan Passe Partout.
The title sequence is especially created for Cantin Flas, who is not in the film when he is not the master master of the Spanish language, and has a comic bullfighting sequence that is not shown in the English version. In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg claims he can circumnavigate the world. He makes a £20,000 wager ) with four skeptical fellow members of the Reform Club that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8: 45 pm that evening. Together with his resourceful valet, PassePartout, Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe to encourage others to help him get to his destinations faster so he can accommodate tight steamship schedules. They set out on the journey from Paris by a gas balloon named La Coquette upon learning the mountain train tunnel is blocked. After sailing across the Atlantic, and only hours short of winning his wager, Fogg is arrested upon arrival at Liverpool, by the diligent yet misguided Inspector Fix. In India, the two rescue young widow Princess Aouda from being forced into a funeral pyre with her late husband. The three visit Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and the Wild West. The two accidentally end up in Spain,. Fogg arrives at the club just before the 8:45 pm chime, as no woman has ever entered the Reform club before.
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