around the world in 80 days (1956 1976 cbs warner bros.

In addition to being a comedian, Cantinflas was also an incredibly gifted athlete and acrobat and he used all of his physical comedy skills to put on a show at every stop. He meets Passepartout (Cantinflas) through an agency and immediately hires him and asks him to be his travel companion. And the world’s greatest living comedian, Cantinflas in one of his few Hollywood performances, plays the Sancho Panza to David Niven’s Quixotic Phileas Fogg.įogg travels the world on a wager that it’s humanly impossible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Like almost everyone in Hollywood#Cameo_appearances). Fast forward to 1956 and Director Anderson and Farrow pieced together a team of accomplished filmmakers to help bring this vision to the screen.Īnd it is an exciting spectacle that pays respect to the source material while tweaking some of the characters slightly in order to also make an engaging film. Long before Fodor’s covered the globe or Rick Steves charmed us with his wanderlust, all the way back in 1872, Jules Verne wrote about the nearly impossible task of traversing the globe in exactly 80 days. Perelman, Jules Verne (Novel)ġ75 minutes.

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Around the world in 80 days (1956 1976 cbs warner bros.