Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

NR ★ 5.3/10 101 min Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family United States English

Director: Irwin Allen

Novel: Jules Verne
Screenplay by: Albert Gail, Charles Bennett, Irwin Allen

Streaming: Not available

DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!

Description

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.

Top Cast

Red Buttons Donald O'Shay

Barbara Eden Susan Gale

Cedric Hardwicke Fergusson

Peter Lorre Ahmed

Richard Haydn Sir Henry Vining

BarBara Luna Makia

Fabian Jacques

Billy Gilbert Sultan/Actioneer