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Around the World in 80 Day 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 Cantinflas and David Niven, 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) 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
contentLocation	London Paris San Francisco
director	John Farrow Michael Anderson
editor	Gene Ruggiero Howard Epstein
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 force from the earth to the moon gas balloon georges méliès international date line jean passepartout jules verne misguide passepartout phileas fogg police inspector pound sterling reform club sati scotland yard spending money to the moon train tunnel 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
publisher	United Artists
recordedAt	Bangkok Hong Kong Hyde Park Japan Madrid New Mexico Newport Beach Paris Sylhet Yokohama
theme	action comedy epic