1956 Directed by Michael Anderson
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 Cantinflas Finlay Currie Robert Morley 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 Harcourt Williams Martine Carol Cedric Hardwicke Noël Coward John Gielgud Fernandel Evelyn Keyes José Greco Cesar Romero Show All…
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For better and for worse, easily the most British movie I've ever seen. Fun to see all of these shots lined up in a way that you know they're cameos, but have absolutely no idea who the hell they are.
I have fond memories of watching and rewatching the 2004 Coogan/Chan remake of this film so I was very excited to watch the original, and honestly I think I enjoyed the goofy remake more! This one is pretty bloated at 3 hours, and the ending is shockingly underdone for a film that takes its time literally everywhere else– but you also get why it's so long! It's a true spectacle! You're watching the advent of the adventure film in real…
A brief list of movies that were not nominated for best film in 1956:
The Searchers, Early Spring, The Killing, A Man Escaped, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Aparajito, Street of Shame, The Wrong Man, Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
A brief list of movies that were nominated in 1956, but didn't win:
Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The King and I, The Ten Commandments.
Academy, what the hell were you thinking?
My mommy said I didn't have to take the garbage out today because watching this movie was enough of a chore for one day.
Just because cinema can do something, doesn’t mean it should. Just because cinema can do all of the things, doesn’t mean it should do all of them all at once.
But, dammit, if “Around the World in 80 Days” isn’t going to try it anyway.
A letterboxed introduction to the film by Edward R. Murrow (the first in an unending string of cameos) shows a small portion of Georges Méliès’ “From the Earth to the Moon, before exploding in a literal rocket burst into widescreen “Todd-AO” format. It becomes immediately evident that “80 Days” isn’t going to only be a hyperbolic love letter to Jules Verne, exploration, or even invention itself. It’s going to be a love letter to itself.…
I have to assume there were no other movies released in 1956, so the Academy had no choice but to give the Oscar for Best Picture to this interminable travelogue out of sheer necessity. Its race around the world has all the urgency of a mid-afternoon nap. Maybe if Phileas Fogg didn’t keep stopping his trip for a 15 minute dance sequence and a 20 minute bullfight and a 10 minute acrobat show and a 5 minute parade he wouldn’t be so behind schedule!
It started to feel like it was going to take eighty days to finish this ... not that it was awful ... but the segmented pacing did welcome many breaks.
"An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir."
For some reason it never dawned on me that one of my favorite movies growing up 'The Chipmunk Adventure', was also loosely based on author Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days novel that was adapted into this odd duck of a Best Picture winner. The story follows British nobleman Phileas Fogg who throws down a huge wager that he can complete a race around the world in record time. This leads to a big silly adventure where Fogg proves that…
were we all aware this boring nonsense begins with a 10 minute montage about Jules Verne introduced by Edward R. Murrow
I love how this 3 hour movie is just a setup for a 6 minute animated title sequence.
Around the World in Eighty Days is an epic adventure comedy that is completely shallow. While it does have some moments of wonder and many crowd-pleasing set pieces, mostly it is quite bland and stiff. Though I'm sure the effects and scale were considered impressive at the time. Mexican film legend Cantinflas probably gives the most endearing performance here, but every character is one dimensional. Cantinflas is often reduced to performing in long, stagnant quasi-action scenes, such as a bullfighting segment, and these provide more energy than most of the film. Around the World in Eighty Days is very tame and unexciting by modern standards, making it hard to appreciate, even as someone who admires many old films. Ultimately the…
I like the premise, and the acting's fine, but oh boy does the three hour runtime somehow feel much longer
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…
