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Five Weeks in a Balloon
"DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!"
1962 • 1h 41m • ★ 5.3 (29 votes) Released
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.
Director
Irwin Allen
Screenplay
Albert Gail
Screenplay
Irwin Allen
Screenplay
Charles Bennett
Rating
5.3
Runtime
101 min
Production
20th Century Fox Irwin Allen Productions
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Keywords
based on novel or bookafricajules vernehot air balloonchimpanzeezanzibar19th century
