Five Weeks in a Balloon
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Family
DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
1962-08-22
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Cast
Director
Irwin Allen
Red Buttons as Donald O'Shay
Barbara Eden as Susan Gale
Cedric Hardwicke as Fergusson
Peter Lorre as Ahmed
Richard Haydn as Sir Henry Vining
BarBara Luna as Makia
Fabian as Jacques
Billy Gilbert as Sultan/Actioneer
Herbert Marshall as The Prime Minister
Reginald Owen as Consul
Henry Daniell as Sheik Ageiba
Jonathan Gilmore as Chief Slave (uncredited)
Mike Mazurki as Slave Captain
Ben Astar as Myanga
Raymond Bailey as Randolph
Sheila Allen as Courtier (uncredited)
Robert Dowdell as Bearded Arab wearing Blue Keffiyeh (uncredited)
Carol Henry as Buggy Driver (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes as Balloon Exhibition Spectator (uncredited)
Al Hoosmann as Guard (uncredited)
Kendrick Huxham as Consular Official (uncredited)
Roy Jenson as Guard (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness as Balloon Exhibition Spectator (uncredited)
Ronald Long as Chiddingfold (uncredited)
Hedley Mattingly as Butler (uncredited)
Eric Micklewood as Reporter (uncredited)
George Nardelli as Arab (uncredited)
Jack Perkins as Apple Merchant (uncredited)
Paul Russell as Balloon Exhibition Spectator (uncredited)
Scott Seaton as Balloon Exhibition Spectator (uncredited)
Stephen Soldi as Villager (uncredited)
Vic Tayback as European Agent (uncredited)