"Around the World in 80 Days" (1989/I) TV mini-series

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Buzz Kulik

Writers:

Jules Verne (novel)
John Gay (written for television by)

Release Date:

16 April 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Action | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just 80 days.

Plot Keywords:

Queen Victoria | Fencing | Cornelius Vanderbilt | Airship | Bank Robbery

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Pierce Brosnan	...	Phileas Fogg
Eric Idle	...	Jean Passepartout
Julia Nickson-Soul	...	Princess Aouda (as Julia Nickson)
Peter Ustinov	...	Detective Wilbur Fix
Jack Klugman	...	Capt. Bunsby
Roddy McDowall	...	McBaines
Darren McGavin	...	Benjamin Mudge
Robert Morley	...	Wentworth
Stephen Nichols	...	Jesse James
Lee Remick	...	Sarah Bernhardt
Jill St. John	...	Woman mistaken for Princess Aouda
Robert Wagner	...	Alfred Bennett
Arielle Dombasle	...	Lucette
Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Italian Chief of Police
Henry Gibson	...	Train Conductor

Also Known As:

"Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni" (Italy)
"In 80 Tagen um die Welt" (West Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG for sensuality, adventure action and language.

Runtime:

Spain:210 min | UK:266 min

Country:

USA | Italy | West Germany | Yugoslavia

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL | UK:PG | Finland:K-7

Filming Locations:

England, UK

Company:

Avala Film

Trivia:

Jill St. John and Robert Wagner were engaged to each other when they made their guest appearance in this film. They were married one year later, in 1990.

Goofs:

Continuity: Princess Aouda is missing one of the five medallions on her necklace when she is mending her peach sari on board the ship to Liverpool and again when she is wearing the peach ensemble during her marriage proposal by Fogg. There is a gap along the pearls in her necklace where the medallion was.

Quotes:

Detective Wilbur Fix: [drunkenly] Vive la France!
Jean Passepartout: [drunkenly] Up the English!

Movie Connections:

Version of Nagagutsu o haita neko: Hachijû nichikan sekai isshû (1976)

A pleasure to watch.

Pierce Brosnan plays Phileas Fogg and Eric Idle plays his traveling companion Passepartout. Phileas Fogg's gentlemen club put a bet for on him to go around the world in eighty days. He travel with his companion on the journey of a lifetime. They go through a series misadventures and lucky chances on their trip. Robert Morley is the only actor to act in both the 1956 and 1989 version of this classic story. The 1989 version in longer and better than in 1956. It is almost like reading the book, but watching it on TV.