Five Weeks in a Balloon
movie

DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!
Released August 22, 1962
Overview
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.
Cast

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)


