Directed by:
Irwin AllenCinematography:
Winton C. HochComposer:
Paul SawtellCast:
Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Richard Haydn, BarBara Luna, Billy Gilbert, Herbert Marshall, Reginald Owen, Henry Daniell (more)VOD (1)
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In 1862, Fergusson, an engineer, is commissioned by the British government to fly his latest invention, a giant balloon carrying a gondola, 4,000 miles from Zanzibar into uncharted West Africa to claim the land around the Volta River for England. Time is of the essence, since a band of international slave traders is already pushing overland to claim the territory. Fergusson is accompanied by his young assistant, Jacques. (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Red Buttons
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
One, Two, Three (1961)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Fabian
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
North to Alaska (1960)
Barbara Eden
USA
Best movies:
From the Terrace (1960)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Flaming Star (1960)
Cedric Hardwicke
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Rope (1948)
Richard III (1955)
Peter Lorre
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
M (1931)
Casablanca (1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Richard Haydn
UK
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
BarBara Luna
USA
Best movies:
Ship of Fools (1965)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Noriega: God's Favorite (2000) (TV movie)
Billy Gilbert
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Herbert Marshall
UK
Best movies:
The Little Foxes (1941)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Reginald Owen
UK
Best movies:
Madame Curie (1943)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Henry Daniell
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Song of Love (1947)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Mike Mazurki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Vic Tayback
USA
Best movies:
Papillon (1973)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Bullitt (1968)
Roy Jenson
Canada
Best movies:
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Raymond Bailey
USA
Best movies:
Vertigo (1958)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Sheila Allen
USA
Best movies:
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ronald Long
UK
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Scott Seaton
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Alan Caillou
UK
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Hedley Mattingly
UK
Best movies:
The Gift of Love (1978) (TV movie)
King Rat (1965)
Columbo (1971) (series)