Five Weeks in a Balloon

Year: 1962

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: English

Director: Irwin Allen

ComedyFamilyActionAdventure

The adventure takes viewers from Zanzibar’s slave market to the forbidden city of Timbuktu and across the treacherous Sahara Simoon. Professor Fergusson sets out to make aviation history, traveling across Africa in a balloon to explore and claim uncharted West African territories as proof of his invention’s value.

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