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A major film adaptation of [[Around the World in Eighty Days|the novel]] by [[Jules Verne]], directed by [[Mike Todd]] and starring David Niven and [[Shirley MacLaine]]
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* [[The Cameo]]: Director [[Mike Todd]] coined the term to differentiate the surprise bit parts played by major stars from all the other bit parts played by unknowns. It first appeared in a book released along with the movie which provided a guide to all the momentary guest stars, with the emblem of a literal cameo next to each one.
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* [[The Cameo]]: [[Peter Lorre]]! [[Buster Keaton]]! ''[[Frank Sinatra]]?''
** That's not it yet. It featured about fifty cameos, all listed on Wikipedia. It includes [[Charles Boyer]], Fernandel, [[Marlene Dietrich]], [[Red Skelton]], and the list just keeps going from there.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Phileas Fogg's balloon ride happens not in the Verne novel, but in this film. The balloon ride has since become such an iconic part of the story that [[Michael Palin]] took a balloon ride in his 1989 travelogue, and modern printings of Verne's novel are sometimes published along with another Verne novel, ''Five Weeks in a Balloon'', with [http://www.librarything.com/work/997143/recommendations/ a balloon] [http://www.paperbackswap.com/Around-World-Eighty-Jules-Verne/book/1853260908/ on the cover].
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: Ends with a [[Saul Bass]] reconstruction of the events of the film.
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* [[Fake Nationality]]: Passepartout is played by Mexican actor [[Mario Moreno]] (better known as Cantinflas).
** [[Shirley MacLaine]] plays Aouda.
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Not so much necessary, but desired in that the book had Aouda soon changing her clothes to a typical European dress. However for most adapters, having this beautiful Indian woman deemphasizing her exoticness by losing her
** Also, balancing a Indian attack on the train by first having the train stop so the Engineer can share a peace pipe with a different Native American nation, who have no interest in attacking since they are satisfied by this gesture.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: And lots of it.
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