History Film / AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956

The film won five UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture. It would also turn out to be the last film scored by Young, as he died less than one month later.

''Around the World in 80 Days'' (sometimes spelled as ''Around the World in Eighty Days'') is a 1956 film starring Creator/DavidNiven and Cantinflas, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by Creator/UnitedArtists.

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 film's 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, while the film portrays him as a Latin American. He's appropriately enough played by the Mexico City-born Cantinflas.

* MidBattleTeaBreak: "Crisis or no crisis, nothing must interfere with tea!"

* AdaptationalNationality: Passepartout in the novel is a Frenchman, while the film portrays him as a Latin American and is appropriately enough played by the Mexico City-born Cantinflas.

* CreativeClosingCredits: A six-minute Creator/SaulBass reconstruction of the events of the film.

* InvisiblePresident: In one of the film's ''many'' tongue-in-cheek scenes (Creator/SJPerelman was in charge of the screenplay, after all), there's a big buildup in which a newspaper is delivered to UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria...of whom all we see is one hand.

** Not so much necessary, but desired in that the book had Aouda soon changing her clothes to a typical European dress. However for most adapters, having this beautiful Indian woman deemphasizing her exoticness by losing her Sari is unthinkable. Also, nowadays not having her accompany Fogg and Passepartout in the final sprint to the Reform Club makes the sequence feel incomplete.
** Also, balancing an Indian attack on the train by first having the train stop so the Engineer can share a PeacePipe with a different Native American nation, who have no interest in attacking since they are satisfied by this gesture.

* 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. Also, Fogg having his tea served on a liner deck in the middle of a storm.

* TheCameo: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/TrevorHoward, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Creator/CesarRomero, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, 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: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, John Gielgud, Creator/TrevorHoward, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Creator/CesarRomero, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, 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: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, John Gielgud, Creator/TrevorHoward, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Cesar Romero, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, 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.

The film won five UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture. It would also turn out to be the last film scored by Young, as he died less than a month later.

The film won five UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture.

!!Tropes:

* TheCameo: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Creator/CharlesBoyer, Cesar Romero, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, 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.

* TheCameo: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Charles Boyer, Cesar Romero, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Creator/RonaldColman, 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.

** Also, balancing an Indian attack on the train by first having the train stop so the Engineer can share a peace pipe with a different Native American nation, who have no interest in attacking since they are satisfied by this gesture.

'''''Around the World in 80 Days''''' (sometimes spelled as '''''Around the World in Eighty Days''''') is a 1956 film starring Creator/DavidNiven and Cantinflas, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by Creator/UnitedArtists.

!Tropes:

* ASpotOfTea: 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. Also, Fogg having his tea served on a liner deck in the middle of a storm.

* TheCameo: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?'' And Creator/NoelCoward, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Charles Boyer, Cesar Romero, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ronald Colman, 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.

* TheCameo: Creator/PeterLorre! Creator/BusterKeaton! ''Music/FrankSinatra?''
** That's not it yet. It featured about fifty cameos, all listed on Wikipedia. It includes Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Creator/MarleneDietrich, Red Skelton, and the list just keeps going from there.

* InvisiblePresident: In one of the film's ''many'' tongue-in-cheek scenes (Creator/SJPerelman was in charge of the screenplay, after all), there's a big buildup in which a newspaper is delivered to UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria...of whom, all we see is one hand.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Not so much necessary, but desired in that the book had Aouda soon changing her clothes to a typical European dress. However for most adapters, having this beautiful Indian woman deemphasizing her exoticness by losing her Sari is unthinkable. Also, nowadays not having her accompany Fogg and Passepartout in the final sprint to the Reform Club makes the sequence feel incomplete.
** Also, balancing a Indian attack on the train by first having the train stop so the Engineer can share a peace pipe with a different Native American nation, who have no interest in attacking since they are satisfied by this gesture.

The film won five {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture.

The film won five {{Academy Award}}s, including BestPicture.