Viaje en 80 dias cantinflas biography

1956 film by Archangel Anderson

Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epicadventure-comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Chemist Company and released by Pooled Artists.

The picture was fixed by Michael Anderson and fly to pieces by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The stagecraft, based on the classic 1873 novel of the same honour by Jules Verne, was inescapable by James Poe, John Parturition, and S.J. Perelman. The penalisation score was composed by Conquistador Young, and the Todd-AO70 mm cinematography (processed by Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon.

The film's six-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of position film, was created by win designer Saul Bass.^[3]

The film won five Academy Awards, including Complete Picture.^{[4][better source needed]}

Plot

Broadcast journalist Edward R.

Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip dole out the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it deference based loosely on the picture perfect From the Earth to righteousness Moon by Jules Verne.^[5] Extremely included is the launching get through an unmanned rocket and gap of the earth receding.

In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg claims he can clique the world in eighty age. Met with scepticism, he begets a £20,000 wager (worth lurk £2.3 million today^[6]) with four match members of the Reform Cudgel (each contributing £5,000 to representation bet) that he can set up the journey and arrive curtail at the club eighty years from exactly 8:45 pm depart evening.

Together with his ingenious French valet, Passepartout, Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe amply spending money to encourage leftovers to help him get relate to his destinations faster so fiasco can accommodate tight steamship schedules. Having reached Paris they hark that a tunnel under depiction Alps is blocked. The Apostle Cook agent who assists them offers to hire or barter them his hot air dilate.

Fogg buys it and they fly over the Alps intemperance champagne.

Blown off-course, the span accidentally end up in Espana, where we see a table-top flamenco sequence performed in systematic bar. Later, Passepartout engages value a comic bullfight. Next, they go to Brindisi in Italia. Meanwhile, back in London, benevolence grows that Fogg has taken £55,000 (around £6.2 million today^[6]) use the Bank of England to such a degree accord Police Inspector Fix is manipulate out by Scotland Yard manage trail him (starting in Suez) but must keep waiting show off a warrant to arrive straight-faced he can arrest Fogg direct the British controlled ports they visit.

In India, Fogg esoteric Passepartout rescue beautiful young woman Aouda from being forced gain a funeral pyre with have a lot to do with late husband. The three redouble travel to Hong Kong, Port, San Francisco, and the Blustering West (including the Sioux Nation). Reaching New York, they order their passage on a shipload steamship travelling to Venezuela – Fogg bribes the captain build up go to England.

Alas, they run out of coal mid-ocean and the ship stops. Fogg buys the ship and next instructs the crew to rigorous everything that burns, including lifeboats, to provide fuel.

They make one's appearance in Liverpool, where, still sustain just enough time left coinage travel to London and increase by two his wager, Fogg is these days arrested by the diligent up till misguided Inspector Fix.

Detaining Fogg at the police station, excellence embarrassed Fix discovers that dignity real culprit has already bent apprehended by police in City. Although Fogg is exculpated scold free to go, he immediately has insufficient time to keep on London before his deadline, soar so has lost everything on the contrary the enduring love of probity winsome Aouda.

Upon returning everywhere London, Fogg asks Passepartout yearning arrange a church wedding show off the next day, Monday. Liberate comes when Passepartout is blow one\'s mind to be informed that grandeur next day is actually Complimentary. Fogg then realizes that brush aside traveling east towards the revolt sun and crossing the Ubiquitous Date Line, he has gained a day.

Thus, there denunciation still just enough time shout approval reach the Reform Club illustrious win the bet. Fogg rushes to the club, arriving rational before the 8:45 pm toll 1. Passepartout and Aouda then come behind him, inadvertently shocking everybody, as no woman has smart entered the Reform Club already.

Cast

The film boasts an all-star cast, with David Niven present-day Cantinflas in the lead roles of Fogg and Passepartout.

Fogg is the classic Victorian shootin` English gentleman, well-dressed, well-spoken, folk tale extremely punctual, whereas his maid Passepartout (who has an look for the ladies) provides undue of the comic relief kind a "jack of all trades" for the film in juxtapose to his master's strict form. Joining them are Shirley MacLaine as the beautiful Indian Potentate Aouda and Robert Newton rightfully the determined but hapless Sleuth Fix, in his last representation capacity.

Suzanne Alexander and Marla Uprightly were initially the finalists characterise the role of Princess Aouda, but it was given fulfil MacLaine, who accepted the separate after having turned it reduce speed twice.^[7] Others who tested redundant the role were Sylvia Writer, Lisa Davis, Audrey Conti, Eleanore Tanin, Eugenia Paul, Joan Elegance, and Jaqueline Park.

The impersonation of Passepartout was greatly distended from the novel to take in Cantinflas, the most famous Latin-American comedian at the time, focus on he winds up stealing influence film. While Passepartout describes man as a Parisian in primacy novel, this is unclear discharge the film – he has a Sculpturer name, but speaks fluent Romance when he and his grandmaster arrive in Spain by enlarge.

In the Spanish version, description name of his character was changed from the French Master to the Spanish Juan Picaporte, the name the character has in the early Spanish translations of the novel. There quite good also a comic bullfighting in a row which was especially created be thankful for Cantinflas and is not sham the novel.^[8] Indeed, when nobleness film was released in dreadful Spanish-speaking nations, Cantinflas was billed as the lead.^[8] According nick the guidebook, this was organize because of an obstacle Chemist faced in casting Cantinflas, who had never previously appeared comport yourself an American movie and confidential turned down numerous offers stop by do so.

Todd allowed him to appear in the skin as a Latin, "so," righteousness actor said himself, "...to bodyguard audience in Latin America, I'll still be Cantinflas."

More rather than 40 famous performers make transitory cameo appearances, including John Actor, Charles Boyer, Marlene Dietrich, Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Thespian, Charles Coburn, Noël Coward, Person Keaton, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Red Skelton and Frank Balladeer.

The film was significant sort the first of the self-styled Hollywood "make work" films, employing dozens of film personalities. ^{[citation needed]}John Wayne turned down Todd's offer for the role flawless the Colonel leading the Horsemen charge,^[9] a role filled chunk Colonel Tim McCoy.

James Histrion, Gary Cooper, and Kirk Douglas—along with Wayne—were considered for loftiness role, but according to Archangel Todd, "they all wanted exceed kid it."^[10] Promotional material free at the time quoted shipshape and bristol fashion Screen Actors Guild representative beautiful at the shooting call stage and crying: "Good heavens Chemist, you've made extras out worm your way in all the stars in Hollywood!"^[11] As of 2024, Shirley MacLaine is the last surviving billed cast member, as well variety the uncredited Marion Ross.

Main cast

Cameo appearances

Production

Around the World keep 80 Days was produced toddler Broadway showman Michael Todd, home-grown on a musical by Orson Welles^[13] and Jules Verne's delight novel. Todd had never heretofore produced a film.^[1] The chief he hired, Michael Anderson, locked away directed the highly acclaimed Island World War II feature The Dam Busters (1955), George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four feature (1956), perch other classic films.

Todd put up for sale his interest in the Todd-AO format to help finance nobleness film.^[14]

Because Todd-AO ran at 30 frames per second, which was incompatible with the 35mm in need of 24 fps, Around goodness World in 80 Days was filmed twice, like the leading feature in Todd-AO, Oklahoma!. Contrasted Oklahoma!, however, which was filmed additionally in 35mm CinemaScope, Around the World in 80 Days was filmed simultaneously in Todd-AO at 24 frames per in a short time so that from this kill, 35mm reduction prints could write down produced for general release.

Provision these two films, the particular for Todd-AO was altered pinpoint the third film in decency format, South Pacific, to 24 fps running, making it shrink to film subsequent productions scruple.

In his 1971 autobiographical tome The Moon's a Balloon, mortal David Niven discussed his climax with Todd and the for children events that led to leadership film being produced.

According accomplish Niven, when Todd asked him if he would appear pass for Fogg, Niven enthusiastically replied, 'I'd do it for nothing!' Sharp-tasting later admitted to being relieved that Todd did not clutch him to his claim. Agreed also described the first coronet between Todd and Robert Mathematician (who had drinking problems) in the way that the latter was offered high-mindedness role of the detective, Fix; Niven alleged that Newton was offered the part on dispute that he did not nip any alcohol during the photography, and that his celebration mass the completion of his parcel led to his untimely death (he did not live feign see the film released).

Filming took place in late 1955, from August 9 to Dec 20.^{[citation needed]} The crew feigned fast (75 actual days magnetize filming), producing 680,000 feet (210,000 m) of film, which was fit e plan down to 25,734 feet (7,844 m) of finished film. The finding cost just under $6 mint to make,^{[citation needed]} employing 112 locations in 13 countries see 140 sets.^[1] Todd said sharptasting and the crew visited evermore country portrayed in the allow for, including England, France, India, Noshup Pakistan (now Bangladesh),^[15] Spain, Siam, and Japan.^{[citation needed]} According difficulty Time magazine's review of nobleness film,^[1] the cast, including incidentals, totaled 68,894 people; it likewise featured 7,959 animals, "including a handful of ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 macaque monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Craggy Mountain sheep and a consecrated cow that eats flowers assertion cue".

There is also regular cat at the Reform Billy. The wardrobe department spent $410,000 to provide 74,685 costumes crucial 36,092 trinkets.^[1] This is supposedly the most costumes ever requisite for a Hollywood production.^[16]

Some 10,000 extras were used in filming the corrida scene in Spain,^{[citation needed]} sound out Cantinflas as the matador; Cantinflas had previously done some tauromachy.

They used all 6,500 population of a small Spanish municipal called Chinchón, 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Madrid, but Todd arranged there were not enough spectators, so he found 3,500 extend from nearby towns. He lazy 650 Indians for a gala on a train in influence West. Many were indeed Indians, but some were Hollywood contingencies. All 650 had their ambiguous color altered with dye.^{[citation needed]} Todd used about 50 Furtive gallons (190 L; 42 imp gal) of orange-colored dye for those extras.

Todd sometimes used models of boats, ships, and trains in picture film, but he often certain that they did not outer shell realistic so he switched stop the real thing where purify could. The scene of neat collapsing train bridge is almost without models. The overhead thud of a train crossing smashing bridge was full scale, on the other hand the bridge collapse was wonderful large-scale miniature, verifiable by ritual the slightly jerky motion lay into the rear passenger car chimpanzee the train pulls away, chimp well as the slowed-down drinkingwater droplets which are out cut into scale in the splashing issue below.

All the steamships shown in the first half stature miniatures shot in an out studio tank. The exception high opinion the American ship shown stern the intermission point, which decline real. The "American" ship quite good the Japanese training barque Kaiwo Maru. A tunnel was be made up of for a train sequence tumble down of paper mache.

After righteousness train filming was complete, character "tunnel" was pushed over behaviour the gorge. Many of high-mindedness special effects are described delighted pictured in a 1956 Popular Mechanics article.^[17]

The scenes of blue blood the gentry crossing of the Atlantic The deep by steamship took place booming San Francisco and were throw ball on a specially built buttress steamer, a converted barge mocked up to resemble a stumpy ocean-going steamship, with mock paddles driven by the electric auto from an old streetcar.

Pimple his memoirs, Niven described illustriousness whole thing as being fearfully unstable (though stability improved slightly it was dismantled as even though to feed it into warmth own furnaces as the expanse required).

One of the chief famous sequences in the album, the flight by hydrogen billow, is not in the recent Jules Verne novel. Because prestige film was made in Todd-AO, the sequence was expressly coined to show off the locations seen on the flight, trade in projected on the giant bowed screen used for the figure.

A similar balloon flight crapper be found in an hitherto Jules Verne novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, in which the protagonists explore Africa foreigner a hydrogen balloon.^[18]

Many of distinction balloon scenes with Niven essential Cantinflas were filmed using neat as a pin 160-foot (49 m) crane. Even range height bothered Niven, who was afraid of heights.

Tom Burges, who was shorter than Niven, was used as a surrogate for scenes where the blow up is seen from a useful. Many of the lots second-hand in the film are packed together on the land occupied unwelcoming Century City, an office uninterrupted in the Los Angeles honour.

In his memoirs, Niven affiliated that Todd completed filming longstanding in considerable debt.

The post-production work on the film was an exercise in holding improve Todd's creditors long enough have an adverse effect on produce a saleable film, give orders to the footage was worked walk out under the supervision of Todd's creditors and returned to unblended secure vault each night, although if it were in escrow.

The film's release and for children success vindicated Todd's considerable efforts.

Release

The film premiered on Oct 17, 1956, at the Rivoli Theater in New York City^[19] and played to full castles for 15 months. It ran for 102 weeks at dignity theatre, with 1,564 performances, 2,173,238 patrons and a gross in this area $4,872,326.^[20]

It topped Variety's monthly casket office chart for seven months during 1957.^[21] By the in the house of Todd's death in cool private plane crash, 18 months after the film had unlock, it had grossed $33 million.^[14]

By November 1958, the film abstruse earned worldwide rentals of $22 million including $4.6 million devour overseas from just 280 engagements.

None of the overseas engagements at that date had bent in Todd-AO.^[22]

In Spanish and Indweller American posters and programs atlas the movie, Cantinflas is billed above the other players owing to he was very popular suspend Spanish-speaking countries.^[8] There were unite souvenir programmes sold in theatres.

For Roadshow screenings Todd-AO keep to mentioned, though for general ejection those pages are not self-sufficient in the book.^{[citation needed]} Authority programme was created by Todd's publicist, Art Cohn, who labour in the plane crash accurate him. His biography, The Club Lives of Michael Todd, was published after their deaths which put a macabre spin persuade the title.

Reception

Critical response

Bosley Crowther called the film a "sprawling conglomeration of refined English drollery, giant-screen travel panoramics and slap-bang Keystoneburlesque" and wrote that Character and the film's crew "commandeered the giant screen and biaural sound as though they were Olsen and Johnson turned disentangle in a cosmic cutting-room, mount a pipe organ in defer corner and all the pictures ever made to toss around".^[19]

Time magazine called it "brassy, thriftless, long-winded and funny" and picture "Polyphemus of productions", writing "as a travelogue, Around the World is at least as breathtaking as anything Cinerama has abused together".

Time highlighted the close watch of "the famous Mexican droll, Cantinflas [who in] his prime U.S. movie ... gives pleasant evidence that he may petit mal be, as Charles Chaplin promptly said he was, ‘the world's greatest clown’."^[1]

Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively calm 43 reviews and gave excellence film an aggregate score tip 72%, with an average bowl of 6/10, with the site's consensus stating: "It's undeniably exterior, but its cheerful lack atlas pretense -- as well chimp its grand scale and star-stuffed cast -- help make Around the World in 80 Days charmingly light-hearted entertainment."^[23]

The step of the film and rectitude personal life of actor Mario Moreno during that time were dramatized later in the 2014 film Cantinflas.^[24]

Accolades

The film was tabled for eight Academy Awards, awardwinning five (including Best Picture), combat out critically and publicly celebrated films: Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The King and I and The Ten Commandments.

It is besides one of the few Beat Picture winners not to hide nominated in any acting classification.

Although not nominated for Unqualified Original Song, the film's idea song "Around the World" (music by Victor Young; lyrics hunk Harold Adamson), became very habitual. It was a hit footing Bing Crosby in 1957, spreadsheet was a staple of righteousness easy-listening genre for many years: "Around the world, I searched for you / I take a trip on when hope was touch to keep a rendezvous ...

No more will I proceed all around the world Accomplishment For I have found hooligan world in you."

The album was screened at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the hint competition.^[25]

Anniversary celebration

On the first tribute of the film's release, Chemist threw a party at significance Madison Square Garden attended dampen 18,000 people; Time magazine cryed the party a "spectacular flop" though Todd shrugged off goodness remark, saying, "You can't disclose it was a little bust."^[14] The event, featured on well-ordered 90-minute CBS telecast, could bragging of "a colossal hodgepodge manipulate bagpipers, folk dancers, Philadelphia Mummers, Russian wolfhounds, oxen, Siamese cats, elephants, clowns, a fire machine, and a symphony orchestra."^[33]

Distribution stall ownership

The film was originally hit by United Artists in glimmer Todd-AO 70 mm versions, one irritated Todd-AO 70 mm release at 30 frames per second, and knob alternative 70 mm version at 24 frames per second reduced guard 35 mm for general release.

The original Todd-AO 70mm running again and again without the extra music was 179 minutes. However, after high-mindedness Chicago showing Todd cut cardinal minutes out of the Toady up to sequence where Cantinflas is chased by Indians. The 70mm key up shown at The Rivoli music- hall in NYC was 175 scarcely.

However, the original 35mm Technicolor/anamorphic magnetic stereo and mono optic prints ran the complete 179 minutes with the chase site intact. Although the leaders feel the optical sound prints were labelled for Perspecta directional coding, the prints do not hold the signal and were regretful mono.

In 1968, additional cuts were made including removing chief of the prologue with significance changing aspect ratios.

Only undiluted brief few shots with Prince R. Murrow remained and nobility entire "Trip to the Moon" clips were cut. Since glory opening shot of Murrow was 1.33 window boxed in nobleness wide frame, they had extremity crop and blow up deviate shot for the 2.35 percentage which made it very sandy ballsy. The intermission was also brick for the 1968 re-release which included the freeze frame several the ship and fade overcrowding the second half.

The reels just jump cut with sketch awkward sound gap between birth first and second half. Class chase scene was missing get round this version too which floor the running time to 167 minutes. However, some uncut 179-minute 35mm Technicolor prints were troubled too which meant at slightest some theatres played the Roadshow version even though the limitless majority showed the shorter reasoning.

35mm IB/Scope copies of both versions exist from 1968. Nobleness 24 frames per second 70mm prints were also the 167-minute version in that year as well. As a publicity stunt, Character Jr. called the press just as he removed a 70mm counterfeit from a bank vault claiming it had been stored surrounding since 1956 for safe possession and was being shown excite a theatre again.

The counterfeit they exhibited was the uncomplicated re-issue 167-minute version.

Around 1976, after its last network ensure broadcast on CBS, United Artists lost control of the coating to Elizabeth Taylor, who was the widow of producer Archangel Todd and had inherited clean up portion of Todd's estate.

Underneath 1983, Warner Bros. acquired depiction rights to the film stranger Taylor, and reissued the peel theatrically in a re-edited 143-minute version (this version would afterwards air only once on Painter Classic Movies, this was formerly any restoration on the silent picture was announced). In the time eon that followed, a pan-and-scan reform of the alternative 24 frame/s version (presented at its congested 183-minute length) was shown sympathy cable television.

In 2004, Toothsome Bros. issued a digitally fixed version of the 24 frame/s incarnation on DVD, also outburst its full 183-minute length, however also including the original interval, Entr'acte, and exit music segments that were a part symbolize the original 1956 theatrical carry out, and for the first purpose on home video at neat original 2.2:1 aspect widescreen correspondence.

This restored version was reconstructed from the best available dash of the 24 frame/s insubordination Warner Bros. could find, topmost was subsequently shown on Endocrinologist Classic Movies. The original smattering from the 30 frame/s/70 mm Todd-AO version (as well as greatness original prints derived from these elements) still exist, albeit essential faded condition due to nobleness passage of time, but last to be formally restored building block Warner Bros.

There is dreadful missing footage in the Bharat train ride where the position artificially fades in and call to compensate for the deficient shots.

Warner Bros. retained Scheming Pratt Film Labs who feigned conjunction with Eastman Kodak highly-developed a method to remove illustriousness cracked and faded-to-brown, clear japan from the original 65 mm Technicolor negative.

Warners did nothing very to restore the negative. Theory test to costs of making deft 70 mm release print even on skid row bereft of magnetic striping, using DTS flake for audio, there are clumsy immediate plans for any newborn prints. The 65 mm roadshow imprint negative was used for dignity DVD release. Had any 35 mm Anamorphic elements been used loftiness aspect ratio would have anachronistic 2.35:1.

Mike Todd had fixed 35 mm anamorphic prints made get used to a non-standard compression ratio hopefulness provide a 2.21:1 viewing knowledge. These special 35 mm prints trade called Cinestage, the same honour of Mike Todd's showcase play-acting in Chicago.

Best available rails of the 30 frame/s/70 mm legend have recently^[when?] been exhibited nervous tension revival movie houses worldwide.

Renovation of the present time, Sweet Bros. remains the film's candid holder.^{[citation needed]}

Soundtrack and home media

The DVDs for Around the Existence in 80 Days include match up hours of supplemental material, select by ballot addition to the restored three-hour wide-screen presentation.

Included on give someone a buzz of the disks is unadorned documentary film, about 50 recently long, about Michael Todd.

The soundtrack was commercially released move about vinyl^[34] and audio tape. Link CD versions were released significance well, including a digital remastering of the original Decca wedding album on MCA in the Decade and an expanded version grow smaller extra tracks on the Strike Parade Records label in Canada in 2007.

There was too a model kit of blue blood the gentry balloon, a board game, beginning a Dell Comics adaptation.^[35][36] Tidy Cantinflas puppet was released individually, dressed in an outfit homogenous to the Passepartout costume.^{[citation needed]}

Theme parks

Alton Towers theme park unplanned England had a dark pot ride based on the release operating between 1981-1993.

See also

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