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| Contributor | Cantinflas, David Niven, Robert Newton |
| Language | English |
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Around the World in 80 Days: Special Edition (Dbl DVD) Phileas Fogg bet his fellow club members that he could circle the globe in eighty days. That may not be impressive today, but in 1872, it was nearly impossible. Accompanied by his valet, Passepartout, and the wandering Princess Aouda, Fogg crosses Europe, India, Japan, the Pacific and the United States.
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Around the World in 80 Days on DVD sports an attractive transfer and an inside look at 1950s Hollywood. BBC Radio's Brian Sibley offers a trivia-laden commentary track, while Turner Film Classics host Robert Osborne provides some nice historical perspective in his introductions to most of the extra features. Most interesting is "Around the World with Mike Todd," a 50-minute 1968 documentary about the film's producer, covering his Broadway hits, his films, and his life with Elizabeth Taylor. There's also 47 minutes of Playhouse 90's coverage of the lavish party Todd threw at Madison Square Garden to celebrate Around the World's one-year anniversary. Shorter segments show Todd at the L.A. premiere and the 1957 Oscars. Also included is the first Jules Verne film adaptation, Georges Melies's 1902 classic "A Trip to the Moon." Finally, there's a list of the 35 people who made cameos, but it seems like a missed opportunity not to have offered easily accessible film clips from there. --David Horiuchi
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- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 6.4 Ounces
- Item model number : 2232493
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 3 hours and 2 minutes
- Release date : December 8, 2005
- Actors : David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B0001US8F8
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The film also looked like few films the public had ever seen. It was part of Hollywood’s answer to the growing threat of television, which had cut movie ticket sales by one third to one half in the early 50s. IN 1952 the way was shown by Cinerama, a widescreen system using three cameras, three projectors and an elaborate sound system. It required a curved screen and specially set up theaters, resulting in limited locations that could show it. Still the audience went wild for it and their pictures sold millions of tickets. The studios found it too cumbersome and complicated and developed their own widescreen systems like 20th Century Fox’s CinemaScope and the independently created Panavision that could be shown on any wide screen without curves, and which eliminated the lines on the screen where the three pictures of Cinerama joined.
This is where Mike Todd comes in. He was a well known producer of Broadway shows. He was reminiscent of Ziegfeld: extroverted, flamboyant, extravagant, a man everyone knew who went through wild swings of hits and misses, lavish parties and creditors. He had joined the Cinerama team in 1950 and directed part of “This Is Cinerama “ and filmed “Aida” at La Scala in the process, but was eventually dismissed because of his tendency to totally take over anything he was involved in. As a result, in partnership with others he came out with his own widescreen process, Todd AO. It could work with curved or flat screens and used only one camera and projector, eliminating the lines. Cinerama only made travelogs (until 1962). He would go them one better and produce a scripted film with actors.
This is why some viewers today don’t quite get “Around the World in 80 Days”. While it is a film with actors, it is also a travelog of sorts and a big part of it;s draw was to give the audience visually immersive scenes to show off the process. He even opened the film exactly like “This is Cinerama” with newsman Edward R. Murrow (Cinerama had used Lowell Thomas) sitting at a desk in the usual almost square picture that the audience was used to. Then, at the right moment (a rocket launch), the curtains open to reveal the amazingly wide screen. But mixing the two elements leaves some people now to wonder at a balloon ride that goes on for ten minutes, flamenco dance troupes. Long pov train rides and other scenes meant to wow the audience on the wide screen. It was about this as much as the plot or the acting.
Being Mike Todd, he spared no expense, and the movie was very lavish for its day. There were second units sent out to film many of the sites in Europe, South Asia and the Western U.S. for the film, though most of the actors’ scenes were shot on sound stages. Real boats rather than models were used when possible.Then he added something new, the first film with lots of well known actors in cameo roles. This is one of the things everyone loved and everyone talked about. I was just a kid then and didn;t really know these actors but my parents did and loved it. The Reform Club members alone are a kind of Who’s Who of British actors, all of whom had been in many American films as well. There were 40 altogether including really big names like Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, and everyone’s favorite, Frank Sinatra, who didn’t even say a word.
The central cast is small but effective, even though they are often stopped in the middle of something to show some scenery. David Niven is excellent as Phileas Fogg and it’s a tricky role. Of course he is a perfect British gentleman but he is not usually endearing. Fogg is obsessively punctual and scheduled, demanding, pompous and formal, at times a real pain. But he’s efficient, resourceful, generous, brave and loyal. He goes out of his way to rescue Passeportout, even risking his life. In the end you know that beneath that difficult exterior is a fine person. The film totally revived Niven’s career, making him an international star again after a down time in the early 50s. He had stupidly (as he admitted in his autobiography) antagonized his patron, Samuel Goldwyn, and for years he;d been doing mostly small Brithish films. He got by by being one of the four stars of Four Star Productions, a major producer of 50s television.
Cantinflas was already one of the biggest stars of Mexican cinema and in all Latin America. The film brought him a bigger audience and only the unfortunate flop of the film “Pepe”, designed to solidify his international appeal prevented it from lasting. He possessed a Chaplinesque “Little Tramp” quality that was very endearing. He was also genuinely funny and the real heart of the film, in many ways the true star. The scenes in Spain were added for him and are not in the book. It’s also actually him doing the bullfighting, something in which he had actually done, using no stunt double at all.
Shirley MacLaine is certainly far from an Indian woman and she always said she was miscast. But she played her role well and gained many new fans in this, her third film. Robert Newton is Inspector Fixx, as close as one gets to a villain in this piece, which fortunately uses the race against time for its tension instead. He was best known as the definitive Long John Silver in Disney’s “Treasure Island” (1950) and the originator of many of the ways pirates were shown on screen. He died almost immediately after making the film.
The film was to be directed by John Farrow, but he only did some of the Spanish scenes before being fired by Todd. As with Cinerama, Todd had to be the real boss in control and Farrow didn’t agree. Todd then hired up and coming British director Michael Anderson (“The Sundowners”, “Logan’s Run”) who proved more willing to direct the film that Todd wanted. Composer Victor Young had worked in Hollywood for decades and had been nominated for the Best Score Oscar 23 times. Hints of the chords and melody of the big :Around the World” theme appear in several scores and is almost arrived at in “Scaramouche”. In this film it burst out in its full realization and finally won him the Academy Award, though he died before the ceremony. The film is fun and family friendly. Just remember it was shot in 1956 and is full of 50s assumptions and attitudes.
If you are the kind of person who believes inflation can be subdued, jobs returned to America and the environment safeguarded, the nation responsible for unleashing the lab-created, murdering COVID virus upon the world can be held accountable, that opportunity for every person can be made available to every man, woman and child regardless of race and gender, and so on, watch this film and celebrate its optimism. If you're a hand-wringing leftist, avoid it like the plague; you can't possibly enjoy it.
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Nessuno però aveva il coraggio di assumersi un tale impegno fino a quando Mike Todd ne acquisì i diritti e produsse l’omonimo film che uscì nelle sale americane il 17 ottobre del 1956, riscuotendo un successo clamoroso in tutto il mondo.
All’inizio Todd aveva chiamato a dirigerlo John Farrow, già famoso e capace regista (nonché padre di Mia) ma i due entrarono in conflitto quasi subito e il produttore optò per un giovane di ottime speranze come Michael Anderson.
A Todd, infatti, serviva soprattutto un buon cameramen e direttore della fotografia, il resto era tutto nella sua testa. Il produttore (con un passato di costruttore prima, e impresario teatrale dalle sfarzose produzioni poi) era stato uno dei fondatori della Cinerama, la società che aveva realizzato l’omonimo formato panoramico in uso a Hollywood, e in quel periodo aveva appena brevettato il Todd-AO.
Insieme alla American Optical Company, Todd era riuscito a realizzare con una sola macchina da presa quello che il Cinerama faceva con tre, riducendo di due terzi i costi (visto poi che per riprodurre in Cinerama ci volevano ben tre proiettori contemporaneamente).
Con questa nuova e determinante innovazione il libro di Verne era proprio il soggetto ideale per mostrare agli spettatori parti del mondo sconosciute o spettacolari scenografie create dallo stesso Todd apposta per il film. Così l’opera dell’immenso Verne venne alquanto rivista, corretta e adattata per fornire “cartoline” da tutto il mondo.
Ma se il film presenta dei limiti di sceneggiatura, possiede comunque il suo fascino romantico e forse ingenuo, e consacra di fatto un filone di cospicuo e duraturo successo.
La storia – o il fato – ci ha impedito di sapere se Todd poi sarebbe salito nell’Olimpo dei grandi produttori cinematografici visto che poco meno di un anno e mezzo dopo l’uscita del suo primo e unico film, perì in un incidente aereo, lasciando sua figlia Liza di pochi mesi e la sua giovane vedova, Elizabeth Taylor.
Certo è che anche con un solo film Todd ha lasciato il segno. Fu lui stesso, infatti, ad inventare e coniare il termine “cameo” per le fugaci apparizioni di famose star nei film. “Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni” ne contiene ben 40 fra cui spiccano i divi più famosi del momento.
Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on July 29, 2019
Nessuno però aveva il coraggio di assumersi un tale impegno fino a quando Mike Todd ne acquisì i diritti e produsse l’omonimo film che uscì nelle sale americane il 17 ottobre del 1956, riscuotendo un successo clamoroso in tutto il mondo.
All’inizio Todd aveva chiamato a dirigerlo John Farrow, già famoso e capace regista (nonché padre di Mia) ma i due entrarono in conflitto quasi subito e il produttore optò per un giovane di ottime speranze come Michael Anderson.
A Todd, infatti, serviva soprattutto un buon cameramen e direttore della fotografia, il resto era tutto nella sua testa. Il produttore (con un passato di costruttore prima, e impresario teatrale dalle sfarzose produzioni poi) era stato uno dei fondatori della Cinerama, la società che aveva realizzato l’omonimo formato panoramico in uso a Hollywood, e in quel periodo aveva appena brevettato il Todd-AO.
Insieme alla American Optical Company, Todd era riuscito a realizzare con una sola macchina da presa quello che il Cinerama faceva con tre, riducendo di due terzi i costi (visto poi che per riprodurre in Cinerama ci volevano ben tre proiettori contemporaneamente).
Con questa nuova e determinante innovazione il libro di Verne era proprio il soggetto ideale per mostrare agli spettatori parti del mondo sconosciute o spettacolari scenografie create dallo stesso Todd apposta per il film. Così l’opera dell’immenso Verne venne alquanto rivista, corretta e adattata per fornire “cartoline” da tutto il mondo.
Ma se il film presenta dei limiti di sceneggiatura, possiede comunque il suo fascino romantico e forse ingenuo, e consacra di fatto un filone di cospicuo e duraturo successo.
La storia – o il fato – ci ha impedito di sapere se Todd poi sarebbe salito nell’Olimpo dei grandi produttori cinematografici visto che poco meno di un anno e mezzo dopo l’uscita del suo primo e unico film, perì in un incidente aereo, lasciando sua figlia Liza di pochi mesi e la sua giovane vedova, Elizabeth Taylor.
Certo è che anche con un solo film Todd ha lasciato il segno. Fu lui stesso, infatti, ad inventare e coniare il termine “cameo” per le fugaci apparizioni di famose star nei film. “Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni” ne contiene ben 40 fra cui spiccano i divi più famosi del momento.
Der versnobte britische Gentleman Phileas Fogg wettet mit den anderen Mitgliedern des steifen Londoner Reform Club um £ 20.000, dass er die Welt in exakt 80 Tagen umrunden kann. Gesagt, getan: Fogg macht sich mit seinem frisch engagierten, umtriebigen französischen Haushälter Passepartout auf die Reise. Alleine die Ballonfahrt des ungleichen Duos von Paris über die Pyrenäen bis Spanien ist Kult und Filmgeschichte; ebenso die Fahrt mit der Segeldraisine durch die Prärie.
Spanien und Wilder Westen. Hier kommen meine Kritikpunkte. 1.) Die naiv-folkloristische Verkitschung des spanischen Stierkampfs. An diesem blutigen ‚Brauchtum‘ ist nichts Lustiges dran. 2.) Die Sioux werden als völlig vertrottelte Wilde dargestellt, die kaum fähig sind, Pfeil und Bogen ordentlich zu halten – geschweige denn zu treffen, während bei den Weißen jeder Schuss sitzt. 1956 mag das den Mainstream-Humor getroffen haben, heute berühren Szenen wie diese peinlich.
Zurück zum Positiven, was ja überwiegt. David Niven war für die Rolle des Phileas Fogg wie geschaffen, auch sein vifer Diener wurde gut besetzt. Neben den beiden sammelt sich ein Staraufgebot, wobei man genau hinsehen muss, um auch alle bei ihren Kurzauftritten zu erspähen: Fernandel als Kutscher in Paris, Peter Lorre als Schiffssteward, Frank Sinatra als Saloon-Pianist in San Francisco, oder Marlene Dietrich als Bardame. Unschwer zu erkennen, dass alle ihre Freude an diesem Abenteuerstreifen hatten.
Ich glaube, auch Jules Verne hätte diese Verfilmung seines Romans gut gefallen. Die humoristische Pointe am Ende, wenn die (von Shirley MacLaine weißgewaschene) indische Prinzessin Aouda den exklusiv für weiße Männer vorgesehenen Reform Club betritt – und das British Empire dadurch dem Untergang geweiht ist – entbehrt nicht einer ungewollten Ironie. Aber gut so.
Was die DVD angeht, besteht sie aus zwei Silberlingen. Teil eins von London bis Yokohama. Dann die Intermission – wie in alten Kinotagen. Teil zwei von San Francisco bis zurück in den Reform Club.
Lehrreich ist das Ganze auch. Der Trick mit der Datumsgrenze funktioniert bis heute.
Ein Aufgebot an Superstars wie natürlich Davis Niven und Shirley MacLaine und Cameos von Buster Keaton über Fernandel, Peter Lorre, Marlene Dietrich bis Frank Sinatra und einige mehr reissen ein schlechtes Drehbuch auch nicht raus.
Ein Film, der nicht in Fahrt kommt und dann noch durch so ein dummes Audio-only Intermezzo unterbrochen wird.
Ne, das war nix...













