Five Weeks in a Balloon
DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!
1962 · 1h 41m · PG
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Directed by
Irwin Allen
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Irwin Allen Director
- Red Buttons as Donald O'Shay
- Barbara Eden as Susan Gale
- Cedric Hardman as Fergusson
- Cedric Hardwicke as Fergusson
- Peter Lorre as Ahmed
- Richard Haydn as Sir Henry Vining
- BarBara Luna as Makia
- Fabian as Jacques
- Billy Gilbert as Sultan/Actioneer
- Herbert Marshall as The Prime Minister
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