Other Titles • Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) • Around the World in 80 Days • In 80 Tagen um die Welt (1957) • Michael Todd's Around the World in 80 Days
Trivia from Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
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American director Orson Welles was considering the possibility of directing the picture but, because of previous engagements, ended up doing a stage production of the story. In 1986 it was made into a TV mini-series.
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The beginning of the film features a prologue by Edward R. Murrow, the esteemed television journalist. It also includes the first film ever to be based on a Jules Verne novel, Melies's A TRIP TO THE MOON from 1902. Georges Melies was one of the earliest French filmmakers whose films still exist, and his film of the Verne novel was about 3 minutes long.
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Shot in Todd-AO, and Eastmancolor.
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Winner of 67 international best picture honors.
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Although the film won the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture--Drama, Cantinflas received the Golden Globe for Best Actor--Musical/Comedy.
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