Five Weeks in a Balloon (film)

Five Weeks in a Balloon
Five Weeks in a Balloon
	Original film poster
Directed by	Irwin Allen
Screenplay by	Irwin Allen; Charles Bennett
Based on	Five Weeks in a Balloon; by Jules Verne
Produced by	Irwin Allen
Starring	Red Buttons; Fabian; Barbara Eden; Cedric Hardwicke; Peter Lorre; Richard Haydn; Barbara Luna; Billy Gilbert; Herbert Marshall; Reginald Owen; Henry Daniell; Mike Mazurki; Alan Caillou; Ben Astar; Raymond Bailey; Chester the Chimp
Cinematography	Winton Hoch, ASC
Edited by	George Boemler
Music by	Paul Sawtell
Production; company	Cambridge Productions
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date	August 22, 1962;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,365,000
Box office	$1.2 million

Five Weeks in a Balloon is a 1962 American adventure film loosely based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Jules Verne filmed in CinemaScope. It was produced and directed by Irwin Allen; his last feature film in the 1960s before moving to producing several science fiction television series. Although set in Africa, it was filmed in California. Balloonist Don Piccard acted as the film's technical advisor. For visual effects, a model of the balloon was used as well as a full-sized unicorn gondola hung from a crane. A novelisation of the screenplay was written by Gardner Fox.

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^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253 says $2.35 million
^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989
^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. January 9, 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures

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[2] Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253 says $2.35 million

[3] Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989

[4] "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. January 9, 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures

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Five Weeks in a Balloon (film)

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