![]() ![]() This deluxe reissue is packed with 23 tracks - over 70 minutes of music in sparkling stereo sound, including nearly 30 minutes of music from the film soundtrack never before available on either LP or CD. Yet, this classic album has been issued on compact disc just once - very briefly, nearly two decades ago! Now, on the 50th anniversary of its initial release, Hit Parade Records is proud to present the digitally remastered, expanded edition of Around The World In 80 Days. The original soundtrack LP spent 10 weeks atop the charts, becoming the #1 album of 1957. Around The World In 80 Days was his masterpiece - the soundtrack to an Academy Award winning film, including "Best Score" for its composer and "Best Picture" overall. Because the film was made in Todd AO, the sequence was expressly created to show off the locations seen on the flight, as projected on the giant curved screen used for the process.įor more than 20 years, Victor Young composed some of the most beloved music Hollywood has ever produced, scoring over 300 films while notching a number of pop hits as a songwriter and performer. One of the most famous sequences in the film, the flight by hot air balloon, is not in the original Jules Verne novel. Noticing Fogg's whole travel party is here, Ralph announces the end of the journey. To the surprise of all waiting at the club, Fogg arrives just before the clock's chime at 8:45 pm, even Aouda and Passpartout arrive. There is still time to reach the Reform Club and win the bet. But salvation is at hand when Passepartout realizes the next morning that, by crossing the International Date Line, they have gained a day. Though eventually exonerated of the charges, he has lost everything - except the love of the winsome Aouda. Only hours short of winning his wager, Fogg is arrested upon returning to London by the diligent, yet misguided Inspector Fix.At the jail, the humiliated Fix informs Fogg that the real culprit was caught in Brighton. The threesome visit Hong Kong, Japan, San Francisco, and the Wild West. In India, Fogg and Passepartout rescue young widow Princess Aouda (Shirley MacLaine) from being forced into a funeral pyre so that she may join her late husband. Hopscotching around the globe, Fogg pauses in Spain, where Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight. Police Inspector Fix (Robert Newton) is sent out by Ralph the bank president (Robert Morley) to trail and arrest Fogg. Meanwhile, suspicion grows that Fogg has stolen his £55,000 from the Bank of England. Together with his resourceful valet, Passepartout (Mario Moreno "Cantinflas"), Fogg sets out on his journey from Paris via a hot air balloon. He makes a PS£20,000 wager with several skeptical fellow members of his London gentlemen's club, the Reform Club, that he can arrive back within 80 days before exactly 8:45 pm. Around 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. The music score was by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography was by Lionel Lindon. Perelman based on the classic novel of the same name by Jules Verne. The screenplay was by James Poe, John Farrow and S. ![]() Produced by Michael Todd with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. John Farrow was replaced by Michael Anderson after a few days of shooting and can not be credited. Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 adventure film made by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. ![]()
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