Around the World in 80 Days

Phileas Fogg is a precise, well-to-do English gentleman whose settled life is upended by a wager. He insists he can travel all the way around the world in only eighty days, a claim that seems absurd in an age of steamships and railways. When the members of his London club take him up on the bet, he sets off at once with his French valet, Passepartout, a former clown, carrying little more than a bag of funds. Their route carries them across several continents by train, steamer, and other means, while a police detective named Fix trails the pair, suspecting Fogg of a bank robbery in England. Along the way they are joined by Princess Aouda, whom they rescue from danger in India.

The film adapts Jules Verne's novel and was directed by Michael Anderson, arriving early in his career, right after The Dam Busters and before 1984. David Niven plays Fogg, Cantinflas is Passepartout, Shirley MacLaine appears as Princess Aouda, and Robert Newton plays Fix, with Robert Morley among the credited cast of more than three hundred. Produced by Mike Todd at a cost of about six million dollars, it returned roughly forty-two million worldwide, a strong result for its time. On IMDb it holds 6.7 from around thirty-two thousand votes, and on TMDB 6.7 from about six hundred, while the critics' rating stands at 6.3.