Five Weeks In A Balloon
Just finished watching "Five Weeks In A Balloon" released by 20th Century Fox.
Curiously, "Five Weeks In A Balloon" is Irwin Allen's - no relation - last foray into producing and directing feature films in the 1960s
It was produced and directed by Irwin Allen; his last feature film in the 1960s before moving to television to create and produce "Lost In Space, " "The Time Tunnel," "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea," and "Land of the Giants." Allen would return to feature films in the 1970s before returning back to television.
"Five Weeks In a Balloon" is perhaps not one of Jules Verne's well known novels.
Verne's novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa" was published in 1863 and is the quintessential adventure novel by Verne,. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's interest through passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The novel gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.
Naturally, Allen's film adaptation only adheres to the basic bare bones plot of Verne's original novel.
Allen's version of "Five Weeks In A Balloon" is a race against time by a trio of British explorers who are commissioned by the British Government to defeat a convoy of slave traders heading toward uncharted land near the Volta River in West Africa. The slavers aim to stake their claim within six weeks and take over the territory.
Peter Lorre is cast in the role of a slave trader, and Barbara Eden and Red Buttons also star in this movie, along with Fabian, and Barbara Luna - who perhaps is best known for her role as Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror".
"Five Weeks In A Balloon" is standard lighthearted fun of a 1960s film of the era.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Weeks-Bal...
Curiously, "Five Weeks In A Balloon" is Irwin Allen's - no relation - last foray into producing and directing feature films in the 1960s
It was produced and directed by Irwin Allen; his last feature film in the 1960s before moving to television to create and produce "Lost In Space, " "The Time Tunnel," "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea," and "Land of the Giants." Allen would return to feature films in the 1970s before returning back to television.
"Five Weeks In a Balloon" is perhaps not one of Jules Verne's well known novels.
Verne's novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa" was published in 1863 and is the quintessential adventure novel by Verne,. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's interest through passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The novel gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.
Naturally, Allen's film adaptation only adheres to the basic bare bones plot of Verne's original novel.
Allen's version of "Five Weeks In A Balloon" is a race against time by a trio of British explorers who are commissioned by the British Government to defeat a convoy of slave traders heading toward uncharted land near the Volta River in West Africa. The slavers aim to stake their claim within six weeks and take over the territory.
Peter Lorre is cast in the role of a slave trader, and Barbara Eden and Red Buttons also star in this movie, along with Fabian, and Barbara Luna - who perhaps is best known for her role as Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror".
"Five Weeks In A Balloon" is standard lighthearted fun of a 1960s film of the era.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Weeks-Bal...
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