Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) on Netflix
G19563h 2mAdventureComedyFamilyRomance
In 1872, the English gentleman Phileas Fogg bets £20,000 at the Reform Club that he can travel around the world in eighty days. He sets off with his new valet, Passepartout.
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Phileas Fogg tells four other members of the Reform Club that steamships and railways now make it possible to travel around the world in eighty days. They accept a wager of £20,000 that he cannot, and Fogg sets out with his new valet, Passepartout. The schedule leaves no slack, since each train, coach and steamer has to connect with the next. When a tunnel under the Alps is blocked, a Thomas Cook agent offers them a gas-filled balloon, and Fogg buys it and crosses the mountains. In London, suspicion falls on Fogg over £55,000 taken from the Bank of England, and Scotland Yard sends Inspector Fix after him; Fix waits for a warrant so he can arrest Fogg at a British-controlled port.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
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- The picture cost just under $6 million to make, employing 112 locations in 13 countries and 140 sets; according to Time magazine the cast including extras totalled 68,894 people, and it featured 7,959 animals, among them 15 elephants, 800 horses and "a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue".
- In his 1971 autobiographical book The Moon's a Balloon, the actor David Niven wrote that Robert Newton, who had drinking problems, was offered the role of the detective Fix on condition that he did not drink during filming, and that his celebration after finishing the role led to his death before the film was released.
- For the bullfight sequence the production used all 6,500 residents of a small Spanish town called Chinchón, 45 km from Madrid, and when Todd decided there were not enough spectators he found 3,500 more from nearby towns.
- One of the most famous sequences in the film, the flight by hydrogen balloon, is not in Jules Verne's original novel; it was created to show off the locations as projected on the giant curved screen used for the Todd-AO process.
- For a fight on a train in the West, 650 Native Americans were used, though some of them were Hollywood extras, and all 650 had their skin color altered with about 50 gallons of orange dye.
