Around the World in 80 Days

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Around the World in 80 Days

G

1956

2h 50m

Comedy

Drama

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Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout (Cantinflas) alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector (Robert Newton) who suspects Fogg of chicanery.

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Critics Consensus

It's undeniably shallow, but its cheerful lack of pretense -- as well as its grand scale and star-stuffed cast -- help make Around the World in 80 Days charmingly light-hearted entertainment.

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Times (UK) Staff

The Times (UK)

08/27/2020

Outstanding in the long part of Mr. Fogg's faithful valet, Passepartout, is Cantinflas, a sad-faced comedian with a delightful economy of gesture and expression, who adds just the right note of implausibility to the whole highly improbable affair.

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TIME Staff

TIME Magazine

02/18/2009

The wonder is that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness.

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Variety Staff

Variety

01/28/2008

With a smash lineup of stars in major and minor parts, Todd has turned out a surefire hit.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

02/22/2025

2.5/4

This adaptation of the Jules Verne novel has its moments, but infinitely more interesting than what appears on screen are the stories surrounding its maker.

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Mark Johnson

Awards Daily

06/27/2023

An elongated, swollen film, somehow both frantic and plodding, with more cameos than substance, 80 Days is an extravaganza with little to do other than entertain. But it knows that and isn’t really trying to be anything else.

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Dilys Powell

Sunday Times (UK)

08/09/2022

Around the World in Eighty Days is like a serial; a serial in brilliant Technicolor and a system by now called, I believe, Cinestage, ending in the most ingenious credits I have ever seen. It is a journey through scenes where the sun is aways shining.

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mark G

@Mark_Alan_G. 1d

Think Bruckheimer or Tony Scott making films in the 1950s. Visually stunning and popping cinematography, with zero in the way of storytelling and character development. Outside Cantinflas, all the other stars are phoning it in, but they had little to work with. This is a cliched movie that should have been much better, but it didn't really try, it just wanted you to look at what the 2nd and 3rd units shot. Eye candy, nothing more.

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Christian K

@ckacar Jan 13

There's a charming story somewhere in here and the narrative and performances are silly to match (compliment). But the runtime is loaded with filler scenes as they travel from country to country. Like extended Spanish dance and bullfighting scenes, Indian burial sequence, Geisha performance, and maybe hundreds of scenery, boat, and train shots. All the portrayals of regions and people are basically caricatures.

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alan g

@agenser Apr 24

A very good adventure film. David Niven as the quintessential English Gentleman plays perfectly. Cantinflas at his comedic best and Crazy Shirley at her most beautiful. Great supporting cast.

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PROFORLIFE B

Apr 13

The movie felt very boring there was barely and action and the whole time the main characters were talking if your looking to waste time on useless knowledge this is the movie for you

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Jeff N

07/23/2024

Can't believe low scores which much be from younger viewers. This type of elegance and granduer isn't reproduced today. Maybe I'm old fashioned but they dont make movies like they used to.

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Alec B

@Alec97 01/10/2024

The scope of the production, while innovative for the time, no longer covers for the overlong and dull narrative.

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Synopsis

Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout (Cantinflas) alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector (Robert Newton) who suspects Fogg of chicanery.

Director: Michael Anderson
Producer: Michael Todd
Screenwriter: Jules Verne, James Poe, John Farrow
Distributor: Warner Home Vídeo, United Artists, Warner Bros.
Production Co: Michael Todd Company
Rating: G
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 17, 1956, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2017
Runtime: 2h 50m
Sound Mix: Surround, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Mono
Aspect Ratio: 70mm, Scope (2.35:1)

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