- The balloon's Arab stopovers run on caricature: in the city of Hezak a credulous Muslim priest proclaims the American reporter a moon god, the sultan lays on a palace feast, and Peter Lorre plays Ahmed, an Arab slave trader offering a kidnapped girl for sale.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
film
- Distributor
- TCF
- Cast
- Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Barbara Luna, Billy Gilbert, Richard Haydn, Henry Daniell Marshall
- Production notes
- Irwin Allen Prod. SP: Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett, Albert Gail. Based on a Jules Verne story set in 1862