Anno di produzione: 1956

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: USA
Location del set: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
Versioni alternative: - The Todd-AO (30 fps) version and the Todd-AO (24 fps) version are as close to being identical as possible, considering that each scene was shot twice, using both methods. Note that the sound mixes of the 70 mm version and the 35 mm version are as close to being identical as possible, unlike _Oklahoma! (1955)_ (qv) where the sound mix is completely different for each version. - When Warner Bros. bought the rights to this film from Elizabeth Taylor (to whom United Artists lost control of the film in the 1970s) for its later re-releases, some prints were heavily edited. An uncut print of the 35mm version has been shown on cable TV.
Genere: Adventure
Lingue: English
Plot: When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. Is this Fogg's way of avoiding arrest? The detective following him believes so, and his butler is becoming unsure. English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel around the whole world in only 80 days. Together with his new butler Passepartout, who expected a different first day at work, he takes off instantly to Paris, where they miss the train to Marseilles. But a travel agent called Thomas Cook offers them his captive balloon, which carries them to Spain instead. Passepartout's skills are necessary in a bullfight in order to get them a ship that should take them back onto their planned route. An ominous Mr. Fix starts crossing their path more and more often, he somehow seems to try to hinder their forthcoming. In the deep jungles of India, the butler's skills are again needed in a case of rescuing beautiful Princess Aouda, who is to be burnt alive at the side of her dead husband. In Hongkong, Passepartout meets drugs in a involuntarily manner and in the United States, the wild, wild west takes its toll. All the time, Mr. Fogg has his usual timetable and meal schedule running at normal pace, so that all the waves have to be broken by Passepartout. And he won't get paid much, because he left the gas running, back in London. When the journey comes to a dramatic returning to England, Mr. Fogg has to cope with the facts that he seems to have lost the bet by some hours, but gained something he never seemed to have: emotion.
Visti censura internazionale: Finland:S USA:G
Date di uscita internazionali: Dati tecnici: Suono: Durata: Movielink - film simili: viaggio nella luna la vuelta al mundo de willy fog il giro del mondo in 80 giorni 'round the world in 80 days
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