Around the World in Eighty Days Around the World in Eighty Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

David Niven Finlay Currie Robert Morley Cantinflas Charles Boyer Robert Newton Gilbert Roland Marlene Dietrich Frank Sinatra Buster Keaton John Carradine Peter Lorre George Raft Tim McCoy Joe E. Brown Shirley MacLaine Melville Cooper Reginald Denny Ronald Colman Trevor Howard

Michael Todd Company

adventure

167 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Fabiano Gonçalves

    Review by Fabiano Gonçalves ★★½

    Um clássico à moda antiga.
    Old-fashioned classic.

  • Joe

    Review by Joe ★★★★

    Having recently read the book, I thought I'd watch the movie again, which I hadn't seen in several years. I've always thought it gets a bad rap, probably because it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It's a lot of fun though, blending comedy, action/adventure, travelogue, and a bunch of celebrity cameos into an exciting, please-don't-stay-home-and-watch-TV-anymore bonanza. I just love the atmosphere of it, which reminds me of Disney - Jules Verne's meticulously researched story is replaced with fantasy, but the spirit is mostly intact.

    David Niven as Phileas Fogg is one of those rare instances when an actor and character are just perfectly suited to one another (think of him as the Jack Reacher of his day).

    Some…

  • Andrew Neill

    Review by Andrew Neill ★★★

    An interesting film as it is an epic story told in an innocent time, it feels very out of place in today's world as it is very slow and plods along and they do try and deliver some tension but it is lost in the delivery for me. Saying that, it is fun to look back and see what was winning Oscars nearly 60 years ago.

  • KasperL

    Review by KasperL ★½

    Possibly the film in the history of cinema that drags the most. I get a kick out of Niven's attitude but neither that nor the celebrity cameos can save this dreck.

  • anne_f_

    Review by anne_f_ ★★★★

    "Great fun for watching over several days' dinners with the children. I didn't spot all the many cameos though."

  • michael little

    Review by michael little ★★★½

    An interesting, but undeniably dated, piece of pure cinema confection. The film is a showcase for the Todd-AO camera, designed by the film's producer, Michael Todd, and really, it's his movie. The narrative action unfolds like a travelogue, offering up one beautiful vista after another. Each location comes with the requisite set piece and another chance to pick out one of the many cameo appearances sprinkled throughout the film. It might not work for modern filmgoers, though, especially considering most of the guest stars are largely unrecogognizable to today's audiences. It's really nothing more than a very well made novelty item, a perfect lazy afternoon film and a nice reminder of a Hollywood era long since past. And stick around for the end credits, wonderfully designed by Saul Bass.

  • Amanda_N_Brown

    Review by Amanda_N_Brown

    Animated, Childrens

  • Brent Paton

    Review by Brent Paton ★★★

    Pretty fun. Watch for the drunken Passepartout dance!

  • Patrick Miller

    Review by Patrick Miller ½

    16 out of 100
    I respect the daring decision to actually film this movie in real time.
    But seriously folks. The only things I almost enjoyed were a couple of the 2nd unit on location widescreen vistas, and the saul bass credits. What's left is a painfully boring, unfunny slog. It's an endurance test. Around the Worlds comedy consists entirely of bad stereotypes (british people are kind of stuffy, americans are brash, indians are savage, oh how droll) and some very weak slapstick. And it doesn't help that the film is shot on some very ugly sets wide angle lenses that the cinematographer clearly doesn't understand how to use appealingly yet. Add in the dahes of xenophobism and the amount…