Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon

DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!

NR 1962 · 101 min · ★ 5.5 · Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family

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.

Directed by Irwin Allen · Written by Albert Gail

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