These are the large budget Hollywood movie, shot in producer Michael Todd's pioneering 70mm Todd-AO system to provide the greatest-available picture guide & sweeping widescreen vistas.

the motion-picture show boasts a brobdingnagian cast, using David Niven and Cantinflas in the lead roles of Fogg and Passepartout. Fogg is the classic Victorian gentleman, easily-dressed, easily-spoken, & super punctual, whereas his elementary-minded servant Passepartout will bring good deal of the funny relief as a "jack of all trades" for the film alongside his master's nonindulgent formalities.

Numerous illustrious performing artist play bit parts (Todd is credited with inventing a term "cameo appearance"), & a share of the pleasure therein picture is swimming "spot the star", including victims rather Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, and possibly Frank Sinatra to name two or three. Highlights of their circumnavigation journeying require their adventuresome, & typically humourous, feat from either England through France, Spain, the Suez Canal, India, Hong Kong, Japan, and a American Old West. A bit of of the locations come authentic, however around more suits because of modern development scenes experienced to become shot in studio backlots. A picture holds a record for the greatest total of animals ever employed.

A motion-picture show was nominated for eight Oscars, of which it was awarded five: Won: Best Picture - Michael Todd, producer Won: Best Cinematography, Color - Lionel Lindon Won: Best Film Editing - Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax Won: Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Victor Young Won: Best Writing, Best Screenplay, Adapted - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe Nominee: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - Ken Adam, Ross Dowd, and James W. Sullivan Nominee: Best Costume Design, Color - Miles White Nominee: Best Director - Michael Anderson