Just finished watching "Around the World in 80 Days" on TCM. The 1956 version which won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Produced by Mike Todd (Liz Taylor's 3rd husband).
Fantastic production. Title sequences by the legendary Saul Bass, including a 6 minute animated ending that blew me away.
I remember seeing this one not long after it was released, but I was very young at that time, so only remember parts of it.
Check out the cast (
from Wiki):
Main cast
David Niven as Phileas Fogg
Cantinflas as Passepartout
Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda
Robert Newton as Inspector Fix
Cameo appearances
Edward R. Murrow as the prologue narrator
A. E. Matthews as a Reform Club member
Ronald Adam as a Reform Club steward
Walter Fitzgerald as a Reform Club member
Finlay Currie as Andrew Stuart, Reform Club member
Robert Morley as Gauthier Ralph, Reform Club member and Bank of England Governor
Frederick Leister as a Reform Club member
Ronald Squire as a Reform Club member
Basil Sydney as a Reform Club member
Noël Coward as Roland Hesketh-Baggott, London employment agency manager
Sir John Gielgud as Foster, Fogg's former valet
Trevor Howard as Denis Fallentin, Reform Club member
Harcourt Williams as Hinshaw, a Reform Club steward
Martine Carol as a girl in the Paris railway station
Fernandel as a Paris coachman
Charles Boyer as Monsieur Gasse, balloonist
Evelyn Keyes as a Paris flirt
José Greco as a flamenco dancer
Luis Miguel Dominguín as a bullfighter
Gilbert Roland as Achmed Abdullah
Cesar Romero as Abdullah's henchman
Alan Mowbray as the British Consul at Suez
Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sir Francis Cromarty
Melville Cooper as Mr. Talley, steward on the RMS Rangoon
Reginald Denny as a Bombay police inspector
Ronald Colman as a Great Indian Peninsular Railway official
Robert Cabal as an elephant driver-guide
Charles Coburn as a Hong Kong steamship company clerk
Peter Lorre as a steward on the SS Carnatic
Mike Mazurki as a Hong Kong drunk
Richard Wattis as Inspector Hunter of Scotland Yard (uncredited)
Keye Luke as an old man at Yokohama travel office (uncredited)
Felix Felton as a Reform Club member (uncredited)
Philip Ahn as Hong Kong citizen (uncredited)
George Raft as the bouncer of the Barbary Coast Saloon
Red Skelton as a drunk at the saloon
Marlene Dietrich as the saloon hostess
John Carradine as Col. Stamp Proctor of San Francisco
Frank Sinatra as the saloon pianist
Buster Keaton as a train conductor (San Francisco to Fort Kearney)
Col. Tim McCoy as a US Cavalry Colonel
Joe E. Brown as the Fort Kearney stationmaster
Andy Devine as the first mate of the SS Henrietta
Edmund Lowe as the engineer of the SS Henrietta
Victor McLaglen as the helmsman of the SS Henrietta
Jack Oakie as the Captain of the SS Henrietta
Beatrice Lillie as a London revivalist leader
John Mills as a London carriage driver
Glynis Johns as a Sporting Lady
Hermione Gingold as a Sporting Lady
Frank Royde as a clergyman
Marion Ross (unbilled)
James Dime
More trivia:
The picture cost just under $6 million to make, employing 112 locations in 13 countries and 140 sets. Todd said he and the crew visited every country portrayed in the picture, including England, France, India, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Spain, Thailand, and Japan. According to Time magazine's review of the film, the cast, including extras, totaled 68,894 people; it also featured 7,959 animals, "including four ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 rhesus monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Rocky Mountain sheep and a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue". There is also a cat at the Reform Club. The wardrobe department spent $410,000 to provide 74,685 costumes and 36,092 trinkets. This is allegedly the most costumes ever required for a Hollywood production.