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6 unusual facts about Around the World In Eighty Days


Aouda

Aouda was played by Shirley MacLaine in the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days and by Julia Nickson in the 1989 three-part TV mini-series Around the World in Eighty Days.

Colfax, California

The city is mentioned in Jules Verne’s book, Around the World in Eighty Days.

Fort Kearny

In the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, a train in the process of being hijacked by Sioux stops at Fort Kearny to request aid from the troops there.

New York World

As a publicity stunt for the paper, inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days, she traveled around the planet in 72 days in 1889-1890.

Sasuraiger

The original concept was adopted from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

SS Carnatic

In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it.


Chinchón

In Around the World in Eighty Days, the main square of Chinchón and most of the population were employed for the filming of a bullfight featuring Cantinflas.

Florence Christian School

The FCS drama class has put on several plays, including Charlie Brown, Cinderella, Cheaper by the Dozen, Anne of Green Gables The King and I, Around the World in Eighty Days and Mary Poppins.

Fox Report

Around the World in 80 Seconds: Similar to "Across America", this 80-second segment (which is a pun on the Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days) takes a look at other world news and happenings.

One common feature is "Around the World in 80 Seconds", a play on the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days, that takes a quick look at interesting happenings around the world.

Moon Palace

"Fogg" refers to Phileas Fogg, the protagonist in the novel of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

Mr Fogg

Mr Fogg derives his name from Phileas Fogg, the main fictional character in the 1872 Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.

The Gene Machine

The plot shared many common elements with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, as well as many other literary and historical references to Victorian England, such as Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper and many others.

Théâtre du Châtelet

Notably, beginning in April 1876, the stage version of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, adapted by Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery, began a run spanning sixty-four years and 2195 performances (although not continuously).

Will Wyatt

From 1981 to 1988 he was Head of Documentary Features, starting 40 Minutes, Crimewatch, Food and Drink, Comrades, All Our Working Lives, The Duty Men,Queens'- A Cambridge College, Around the World in Eighty Days with Michael Palin and negotiated and executive produced Elizabeth R, a documentary portrait of the Queen, produced by Edward Mirzoeff.


see also

Phileas

Phileas Fogg, the lead figure from Around the World in Eighty Days