Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
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.
- Date of release
- 1962-08-22
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Director
- Irwin Allen
Casting
- Red Buttons — Donald O'Shay
- Barbara Eden — Susan Gale
- Cedric Hardwicke — Fergusson
- Peter Lorre — Ahmed
- Richard Haydn — Sir Henry Vining
- BarBara Luna — Makia
- Fabian — Jacques
- Billy Gilbert — Sultan/Actioneer
- Herbert Marshall — The Prime Minister
- Reginald Owen — Consul
- Henry Daniell — Sheik Ageiba
- Jonathan Gilmore — Chief Slave (uncredited)
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