Five Weeks in a Balloon

“DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!”

5.3

1962

1h 41m

ActionAdventureComedyFamily

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.

Key Crew

Director

Irwin Allen

Writers

Albert Gail

Irwin Allen

Charles Bennett

Cinematography

Winton C. Hoch

Cast (13)

Red Buttons

Donald O'Shay

Barbara Eden

Susan Gale

Cedric Hardwicke

Fergusson

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