Although Fogg is exculpated and free to go, he now has insufficient time to reach London before his deadline, and so has lost everything but the enduring love of the winsome Aouda. They arrive in Liverpool, where, still with just enough time left to travel to London and win his wager, Fogg is promptly arrested by the diligent yet misguided Inspector Fix.ĭetaining Fogg at the police station, the humiliated Fix discovers that the real culprit has already been apprehended by police in Brighton. Fogg buys the ship and then instructs the crew to take everything that burns, including lifeboats, to provide fuel. Alas, they run out of coal mid-ocean and the ship stops. Reaching New York, they arrange their passage on a cargo steamship travelling to Venezuela - Fogg bribes the captain to go to England. The three then travel to Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and the Wild West (including the Sioux Nation). In India, Fogg and Passepartout rescue beautiful young widow Aouda from being forced into a funeral pyre with her late husband. Meanwhile, back in London, suspicion grows that Fogg has stolen £55,000 (around £5.2 million today ) from the Bank of England so Police Inspector Fix is sent out by Scotland Yard to trail him (starting in Suez) but must keep waiting for a warrant to arrive so he can arrest Fogg in the British controlled ports they visit. Later, Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight. Fogg buys it and they fly over the Alps drinking champagne.īlown off-course, the two accidentally end up in Spain, where we see a table-top flamenco sequence performed in a bar. The Thomas Cook agent who assists them offers to hire or sell them his hot air balloon. Having reached Paris they hear that a tunnel under the Alps is blocked. Together with his resourceful French valet, Passepartout, Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe generously spending money to encourage others to help him get to his destinations faster so he can accommodate tight steamship schedules. Met with scepticism, he makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £1.9 million today ) with four fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can make the journey and arrive back at the club eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening. In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Fogg has to cope with the facts that he seems to have lost the bet by some hours, but gained something he never seemed to have: emotion.Broadcast journalist Edward R. When the journey comes to a dramatic returning to England, Mr. And he won't get paid much, because he left the gas running, back in London. Fogg has his usual timetable and meal schedule running at normal pace, so that all the waves have to be broken by Passepartout. In Hongkong, Passepartout meets drugs in a involuntarily manner and in the United States, the wild, wild west takes its toll. In the deep jungles of India, the butler's skills are again needed in a case of rescuing beautiful Princess Aouda, who is to be burnt alive at the side of her dead husband. Fix starts crossing their path more and more often, he somehow seems to try to hinder their forthcoming. Passepartout's skills are necessary in a bullfight in order to get them a ship that should take them back onto their planned route. But a travel agent called Thomas Cook offers them his captive balloon, which carries them to Spain instead. Together with his new butler Passepartout, who expected a different first day at work, he takes off instantly to Paris, where they miss the train to Marseilles. Comedy | Family-friendly Movie Groups Jules Verne Adaptations Synopsis English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel around the whole world in only 80 days.
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