Story of movie Around The World In 80 Days 1956 Film :
Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring Cantinflas and David Niven, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
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| Directed by | Michael Anderson |
| Produced by | Michael Todd |
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| Based on | Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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| Music by | Victor Young |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Edited by | Gene Ruggiero Howard Epstein |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 182 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $42 million |
The epic picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and S. J. Perelman based on the classic novel of the same name by Jules Verne. The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography (shot in Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon. The film's seven-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by award-winning designer Saul Bass.
The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Screenplay
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £1.6 million in 2015) with four sceptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening.
Together with his resourceful valet, Passepartout (Cantinflas), Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe generously spending money 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. The two accidentally end up in Spain, where Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight. Next, he goes to Brindisi. Meanwhile, suspicion grows that Fogg has stolen £55,000 (around £4.5 million today) from the Bank of England so Police Inspector Fix (Robert Newton) is sent out by Scotland Yard to trail him (starting in Suez) and keeps waiting for a warrant to arrive so he can arrest Fogg in the British ports they visit. In India, Fogg and Passepartout rescue young widow Princess Aouda (Shirley MacLaine) from being forced into a funeral pyre with her late husband. The three visit Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and the Wild West. 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.
At the jail, the humiliated Fix informs Fogg that the real culprit was caught in Brighton. Although he is now exculpated, he has insufficient time to reach London before his deadline and thus has lost everything – but the love of the winsome Aouda. Salvation is at hand when, upon returning to London, Passepartout buys a newspaper and sees it is still Saturday. Fogg then realizes that by traveling east towards the rising sun and by crossing the International Date Line, he has gained a day. There is still time to reach the Reform Club and win the bet. Fogg arrives at the club just before the 8:45 pm chime. Aouda and Passepartout then arrive, surprising everyone, as no woman has ever entered the Reform Club before.
The film boasts an all star cast, with David Niven and Cantinflas in the lead roles of Fogg and Passepartout. Fogg is the classic Victorian gentleman, well-dressed, well-spoken, and extremely punctual, whereas his servant Passepartout (who has an eye for the ladies) provides much of the comic relief as a "jack of all trades" for the film in contrast to his master's strict formality. Joining them are Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda and Robert Newton as the detective Fix, in his last role.
The role of Passepartout was greatly expanded from the novel to accommodate Cantinflas, the most famous Latin-American comedian at the time, and winds up as the focus of the film. While Passepartout describes himself as a Parisian in the novel, this is unclear in the film – he has a French name, but speaks Spanish when he and his master arrive in Spain by balloon. In the Spanish version the name of his character was changed from the French Passepartout to the Spanish "Juan Picaporte". There is also a comic bullfighting sequence especially created for Cantinflas that is not in the novel. Indeed, when the film was released in some non-English speaking nations, Cantinflas was billed as the lead. According to the guidebook, this was done because of an obstacle Todd faced in casting Cantinflas, who had never before appeared in an American movie and had turned down countless offers to do so. Todd allowed Cantinflas to appear in the film as a Latin, "so," the actor said himself, "...to my audience in Latin America, I'll still be Cantinflas."
More than 40 famous performers make cameo appearances, including Marlene Dietrich, Ronald Colman, George Raft, and Frank Sinatra. The film was significant as the first of the so-called Hollywood "make work" films, employing dozens of film personalities. John Wayne turned down Todd's offer for the role of the Colonel leading the Cavalry charge, a role filled by Colonel Tim McCoy. Promotional material released at the time quoted a Screen Actors Guild representative looking at the shooting call sheet and crying: "Good heavens Todd, you've made extras out of all the stars in Hollywood!" Shirley MacLaine and Glynis Johns are the last surviving members of the entire cast.
Main Cast
- David Niven as Phileas Fogg
- Cantinflas as Passepartout
- Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda
- Robert Newton as Inspector Fix
Cameo appearances
- Edward R. Murrow as the prologue narrator
- A. E. Matthews as a Reform Club member
- Ronald Adam as a Reform Club steward
- Walter Fitzgerald as a Reform Club member
- Finlay Currie as Andrew Stuart, Reform Club member
- Robert Morley as Gauthier Ralph, Reform Club member and Bank of England Governor
- Ronald Squire as a Reform Club member
- Basil Sydney as a Reform Club member
- Noël Coward as Roland Hesketh-Baggott, London employment agency manager
- Sir John Gielgud as Foster, Fogg's former valet
- Trevor Howard as Denis Fallentin, Reform Club member
- Harcourt Williams as Hinshaw, a Reform Club steward
- Martine Carol as a girl in the Paris railway station
- Fernandel as a Paris coachman
- Charles Boyer as Monsieur Gasse, balloonist
- Evelyn Keyes as a Paris flirt
- José Greco as a flamenco dancer
- Luis Miguel Dominguín as a bullfighter
- Gilbert Roland as Achmed Abdullah
- Cesar Romero as Abdullah's henchman
- Alan Mowbray as the British Consul at Suez
- Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sir Francis Cromarty
- Melville Cooper as Mr. Talley, steward on the RMS Mongolia
- Reginald Denny as a Bombay police inspector
- Ronald Colman as a Great Indian Peninsular Railway official
- Robert Cabal as an elephant driver-guide
- Charles Coburn as a Hong Kong steamship company clerk
- Peter Lorre as a steward on the SS Carnatic
- Mike Mazurki as a Hong Kong drunk
- Richard Wattis as Inspector Hunter of Scotland Yard (uncredited)
- Keye Luke as an old man at Yokohama travel office (uncredited)
- Felix Felton as a Reform Club member (uncredited)
- Philip Ahn as Hong Kong citizen (uncredited)
- George Raft as the bouncer of the Barbary Coast Saloon
- Red Skelton as a drunk at the saloon
- Marlene Dietrich as the saloon hostess
- John Carradine as Col. Stamp Proctor of San Francisco
- Frank Sinatra as the saloon pianist
- Buster Keaton as a train conductor (San Francisco to Fort Kearney)
- Col. Tim McCoy as a US Cavalry Colonel
- Joe E. Brown as the Fort Kearney stationmaster
- Andy Devine as the first mate of the SS Henrietta
- Edmund Lowe as the engineer of the SS Henrietta
- Victor McLaglen as the helmsman of the SS Henrietta
- Jack Oakie as the Captain of the SS Henrietta
- Beatrice Lillie as a London revivalist leader
- John Mills as a London carriage driver
- Glynis Johns as a Sporting Lady
- Hermione Gingold as a Sporting Lady
- Frank Royde as a clergyman
- James Dime
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Around the World in 80 Days was produced by Michael Todd, a Broadway showman who had never before produced a film. The director he hired, Michael Anderson, had directed the highly acclaimed British World War II feature The Dam Busters (1955), George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four feature (1956), and other classic films. Todd sold his interest in the Todd-AO format to help finance the film.
Because Todd-AO ran at 30 frames per second, which was incompatible with the 35mm standard of 24 fps, Around the World in 80 Days was filmed twice, like the first feature in Todd-AO, Oklahoma!. Unlike Oklahoma!, however, which was filmed additionally in 35mm CinemaScope, Around the World in 80 Days was filmed simultaneously in Todd-AO at 24 frames per second so that from this negative, 35mm reduction prints could be produced for general release. After these two films, the specification for Todd-AO was altered after the third film in the format, South Pacific, to 24 fps running, making it unnecessary to film subsequent productions twice.
In his 1972 autobiographical book The Moon's a Balloon, actor David Niven discussed his meeting with Todd and the subsequent events that led to the film being produced. According to Niven, when Todd asked him if he would appear as Fogg, Niven enthusiastically replied, 'I'd do it for nothing!' He later admitted to being grateful that Todd did not hold him to his claim. He also described the first meeting between Todd and Robert Newton (who suffered from drinking problems) when the latter was offered the role of the detective, Fix; Niven alleged that Newton was offered the part on condition that he did not drink any alcohol during the filming, and that his celebration following the completion of his role led to his untimely demise (he did not live to see the film released).
Filming took place in late 1955, from August 9 to December 20. The crew worked fast (75 actual days of filming), producing 680,000 feet (210,000 m) of film, which was edited down to 25,734 feet (7,844 m) of finished film. The picture cost just under $6 million to make, employing 112 locations in 13 countries and 140 sets. Todd said he and the crew visited every country portrayed in the picture, including England, France, India,East Pakistan(now Bangladesh), Spain, Thailand, and Japan. According to Time magazine's review of the film, the cast, including extras, totaled 68,894 people; it also featured 7,959 animals, "including four ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 rhesus monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Rocky Mountain sheep and a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue". There is also a cat at the Reform Club. The wardrobe department spent $410,000 to provide 74,685 costumes and 36,092 trinkets.
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