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Around the World in 80 Days 1956

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 184 min

genre: adventure

theme: epic

director: John Farrow

Score: 6 / 10

Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.

Plot

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) film made by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.

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author	James Poe John Farrow S. J. Perelman
award	Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review Award for Best Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	London Paris San Francisco
director	John Farrow Michael Anderson
editor	Gene Ruggiero
genre	action adventure comedy drama
keywords	£ a trip to the moon arrest bank of england being forced into a funeral pyre with her late husband brighton brindisi drink end even force from the earth to the moon georges méliès india international date line jean passepartout jules verne misguide new york new york city passepartout phileas fogg police inspector police station pound sterling reform club sati scotland yard shock sioux nation spending money suez the international thomas cook thomas cook & son to the moon travel valet wait wed wild west
musicBy	Victor Young
nomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Mike Todd
productionCompany	Michael Todd Company
publisher	United Artists
recordedAt	Bangkok Hong Kong Hyde Park Japan Madrid New Mexico Newport Beach Paris Sylhet Yokohama
theme	action comedy epic