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''Around the World in 80 Days'' (sometimes spelled as ''Around the World in Eighty Days'') is a 1956 film based on Creator/JulesVerne's [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays 1873 novel]], produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by Creator/UnitedArtists. The film stars Creator/DavidNiven, Cantinflas, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Robert Newton, and an AllStarCast of cameo actors.

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''Around the World in 80 Days'' (sometimes spelled as ''Around the World in Eighty Days'') is a 1956 film based on Creator/JulesVerne's [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays 1873 novel]], produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by Creator/UnitedArtists. The film stars Creator/DavidNiven, Cantinflas, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Robert Newton, Creator/RobertNewton, and an AllStarCast of cameo actors.
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->''[[ThatsAllFolks This is the end.]]''
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* AdaptationalNationality: [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe?]] Jean Passepartout in the novel is a Frenchman, but is played by Mexican actor-comedian Cantinflas. On one hand he's surprising fluent in Spanish in the film, on the other he retains his original French name.

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* AdaptationalNationality: [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe?]] Jean Passepartout in the novel is a Frenchman, but is played by Mexican actor-comedian Cantinflas. On one hand he's surprising surprisingly fluent in Spanish in the film, on the other he retains his original French name.
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* DryCrusader: The final obstacle that [[JustInTime very, but just barely]] nearly [[SpannerInTheWorks gets Fogg to lose the bet]] is Fogg running into a group of these who ask him for money, ask him to stay and pray in thanks when he gives them his final hundred-pound note, and try to make him stay and pray for his soul when he says he has to go because of a bet.
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The film won five UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture. It would also turn out to be one of the last films scored by Young, as he died less than one month later.

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The film won five UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture. It would was also turn out to be one of the last films scored by Young, Young while he was alive, as he died less than one month later.
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* FakeShemp: Creator/DavidNiven was afraid of heights, so Tom Burges, who was shorter than Niven, stood in for him for scenes where the balloon is seen from a distance.



* FakeShemp: Creator/DavidNiven was afraid of heights, so Tom Burges, who was shorter than Niven, stood in for him for scenes where the balloon is seen from a distance.
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''Around the World in 80 Days'' (sometimes spelled as ''Around the World in Eighty Days'') is a 1956 film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by Creator/UnitedArtists, starring Creator/DavidNiven, Cantinflas, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Robert Newton, and an AllStarCast of cameo actors.

The epic picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin [=McClory=] and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and Creator/SJPerelman based on [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays the classic novel of the same name]] by Creator/JulesVerne. The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography was by Lionel Lindon. The seven-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by award-winning designer Saul Bass.

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''Around the World in 80 Days'' (sometimes spelled as ''Around the World in Eighty Days'') is a 1956 film based on Creator/JulesVerne's [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays 1873 novel]], produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by Creator/UnitedArtists, starring Creator/UnitedArtists. The film stars Creator/DavidNiven, Cantinflas, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Robert Newton, and an AllStarCast of cameo actors.

The epic picture was film is directed by Michael Anderson Creator/MichaelAnderson and produced by Mike Todd, Creator/MichaelTodd, with Kevin [=McClory=] and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The the screenplay was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and Creator/SJPerelman based on [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays the classic novel of the same name]] by Creator/JulesVerne.Creator/SJPerelman. The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography was by Lionel Lindon. The seven-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by award-winning designer Saul Bass.

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* AdaptationalNationality: Passepartout in the novel is a Frenchman, but a Latin American in the film, played by Mexican actor-comedian Cantinflas.

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* AdaptationalNationality: [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe?]] Jean Passepartout in the novel is a Frenchman, but a Latin American in the film, is played by Mexican actor-comedian Cantinflas.Cantinflas. On one hand he's surprising fluent in Spanish in the film, on the other he retains his original French name.


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* {{Leitmotif}}: "Rule, Britannia" which plays several times throughout the film, symbolizing Fogg's unstoppable determination. Passepartout has his own theme as well.
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* TheCameo: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/TrevorHoward, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Creator/CesarRomero, Creator/CedricHardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, Creator/CharlesCoburn, George Raft, Creator/MarleneDietrich, Red Skelton, Creator/JohnCarradine, Andy Devine, and the list just keeps going from there. Part of the film's gimmick was its long parade of brief cameo appearances by familiar faces, keeping audiences wondering who would show up next.

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* TheCameo: CameoCluster: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/TrevorHoward, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Creator/CesarRomero, Creator/CedricHardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, Creator/CharlesCoburn, George Raft, Creator/MarleneDietrich, Red Skelton, Creator/JohnCarradine, Andy Devine, and the list just keeps going from there. Part of the film's gimmick was its long parade of brief cameo appearances by familiar faces, keeping audiences wondering who would show up next.

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* BritsLoveTea:
** Fix may regard Fogg's imminent escape from India as a "crisis", but the local British police chief isn't going to let that interrupt his tea or anything.
** Fogg having his tea served on a liner deck in the middle of a storm.



* SpotOfTea:
** Fix may regard Fogg's imminent escape from India as a "crisis", but the local British police chief isn't going to let that interrupt his tea or anything.
** Fogg having his tea served on a liner deck in the middle of a storm.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: A six-minute Saul Bass reconstruction of the events of the film.

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* CreativeClosingCredits: A six-minute Saul Bass reconstruction of the events of the film. It can be seen [[https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/ here]].
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* {{Intermission}}: This occurs when the trio sail on a ship to the United States, to an instrumental of “Rue Britannia” switching to “Yankee Doodle.”
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* TimeTitle: [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film adaptation of the book]], ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''.
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* OneBookAuthor: This was the only film produced by Mike Todd, who primarily produced Broadway shows. He was killed in a plane crash eighteen months after the film opened.
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* FakeShemp: Creator/DavidNiven was afraid of heights, so Tom Burges, who was shorter than Niven, stood in for him for scenes where the balloon is seen from a distance.

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