Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!
101 min
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.
- Release date
- August 22, 1962
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Red Buttons as Donald O'Shay
- Fabian as Jacques
- Barbara Eden as Susan Gale
- Cedric Hardwicke as Fergusson
- Peter Lorre as Ahmed
- Richard Haydn as Sir Henry Vining
- BarBara Luna as Makia
- Billy Gilbert as Sultan
- Billy Gilbert as Auctioneer
- Herbert Marshall as The Prime Minister
- Reginald Owen as Consul
Crew
- Irwin Allen · Director
- Jules Verne · Writer
- Charles Bennett · Writer
- Irwin Allen · Writer
- Albert Gail · Writer
- Irwin Allen · Producer
- Paul Sawtell · Composer
- Winton C. Hoch · Cinematographer
- George Boemler · Editor