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Five Weeks in a Balloon

DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!

1962★ 5.5 · 341h 41mActionAdventureComedyFamily

Overview

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.

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Cast

Peter Lorre
as Ahmed

Barbara Eden
as Susan Gale

Roy Jenson
as Guard (uncredited)

BarBara Luna
as Makia

Henry Daniell
as Sheik Ageiba

Raymond Bailey
as Randolph

Red Buttons
as Donald O'Shay

Richard Haydn
as Sir Henry Vining

Cedric Hardwicke
as Fergusson

Reginald Owen
as Consul

Mike Mazurki
as Slave Captain

Sheila Allen
as Courtier (uncredited)

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Release date: 1962-08-22

Runtime: 1h 41m

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ActionAdventureComedyFamily

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