Five Weeks in a Balloon 1962 123movies

Watch: Five Weeks in a Balloon 1962 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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.
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Taller Than An Elephant
The title song assures us that, if you fly in a balloon, nothing is impossible. “I’m taller than an elephant and twice as powerful, too.” From the first minute you know, “5 Weeks in a Balloon” will be fun with a capital F. Sure, it’s easy to analyze this movie and come to the conclusion it’s childish and full of clichés. But my point is, grown-ups rarely manage to make movies that really show the world as it is in the imagination of a 10 year old – an admirable quality. While the real Africa is struck by war, starvation and disease, this is the fantasy Africa where rogues were colorful costumes for good looks and the heroes will have a break in the middle of the wilderness, not worrying about the lions around, to sing a song before they go on – because they know, in a dream no-one can actually be harmed. “5 Weeks in a Balloon” may not be Irwin Allen’s best movie, but I still like it as much as I did when I watched it for the first time, because only movie theater entertainment at its best can take us away from the real world for an hour and a half to forget all our worries. Can’t be grateful enough for that sometimes!

A fantastic adventure that only Jules Verne could envision.
There’s a lot to love in this film, especially the majestic photography that had this odd looking balloon flying through gorgeous but dangerous mountain ranges and landing in various unexplored parts of the world, many filled with danger. Handsome Fabian is given top billing as a crew member of Sir Cedric Hardwicke’s floating ship where a variety of different personalities gather together for a journey they’ll never forget. Richard Haydn goes back to his pucker voiced eccentric of “Sitting Pretty” as a rather prissy guest, and they are joined by stowaway BarBara Luna, the smug Red Buttons (annoying as always), pretty Barbara Eden, a chimp and, as he describes himself, Peter Lorre as “an honest slave trader”.

Among the great moments are their journeys to an Arabic kingdom (with veteran comic Billy Gilbert as the caliph), the landing in the African outback, chased off by natives, and their fight against a sandstorm. Veteran British actor Herbert Marshall emulates veteran villain Douglas Dumbrille who played similar roles in several films in the 1940’s. It’s nice to see the characters played by Luna and Eden actually becoming friends rather than pulling out hair as rivals over one of the men, obviously since this was meant as a family movie.

Eden is paired with Buttons whose character seems to calm down and become more humble as the film goes on. Lorre gets some great lines (“I’m not a slave. I sell them”), and it’s impossible to not chuckle when he first appears wearing a fez. Irwin Allen directs with his flair of the visual. In fact, those visuals grab you from the opening, a test run of this ship which barely manages to miss crashing into the jagged rocks beneath them. I can guarantee that this looked stunning on the big screen because it looks fantastic on a digital TV screen. Well worth seeing over and over!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Director Irwin Allen
Writer Jules Verne, Charles Bennett, Irwin Allen
Actors Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (35 mm optical prints), 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm