Around the World in 80 Days

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Meanwhile in England, Bellamy, using the news of Fogg's death at sea and facing bankruptcy, tries to pressure Fortescue into releasing Fogg's money as the executor of his will but fails when Fortescue receives Abigail's telegram that they are still alive and heading to New York City. According to a second-hand 1898 account, Verne refers to a Cook advertisement as a source for the idea of his book. A more authentic way to replicate this route would thus be to take a train from London to Dover, cross the English channel to Calais by ferry, then catch a train onwards to Paris from Calais. Since the novel was published, people have been trying to recreate the main characters' adventurous journey.

Fogg has missed the train and arrives in London apparently five minutes late, certain he has lost the wager. Some of the adaptations have set up Fogg and Passepartout travelling a leg of the journey in a hot air balloon. ZDF released the complete series online in Germany on 11 December 2021, [7] with an on-air release from 21 December to 23 December. After Kneedling had convinced the bank to withhold Fogg's money, claiming he was a wanted criminal, Fogg tries to use the party to convince the governor to lend him the money needed to travel to Japan. From here the pair travels by taxi, via place Vendome and rue de Castiglione, to the Thomas Cook travel bureau in the arcades of the rue de Rivoli.This unique culinary journey commences, as all adventures should, with a champagne flight of Laurent-Perrier's finest, and paired canapés, by the cherub-adorned fountain in the Victorian St. Stranded in an Indian village after the railroad Abigail wrote about turned out to be still incomplete, the group agree to stay for the night because of a wedding. All of them have a different story and serve up exclusive offerings of curios, cocktails, food, and fun! Fogg’s Tavern does offer food, it is traditionally a Victorian bar that serves up alcoholic drinks throughout the week in Theatre Land. This was filmed on the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway, running 45 miles between Durango and Silverton alongside Route 550 through the spectacular 3,000-foot San Juan Mountains in South Colorado.

With his trusty French batman Passepartout, the two set out on a thrilling adventure that takes them to the deepest jungles of India where they meet a beautiful princess, to the eastern metropolis of Hong Kong, across the ocean to San Francisco and more! Since she is drugged with opium and hashish and is not going voluntarily, the travellers decide to rescue her. Needless to say, the ‘Bombay’ street and the ‘Pagoda of Pillaji’, where Princess Aouda (an embarrassingly brown-faced Shirley MacLaine) escapes ritual suttee, are pure Hollywood.Fogg and co arrive safely back in London only to be locked up by the over-enthusiastic Inspector Fix ( Robert Newton) and the crucial deadline is missed. It's nearby, at the junction of Pelham Crescent and Pelham Place, that Passepartout sees the newspaper vendor and realises that it's still Saturday and all is not lost. The sequence uses the herd found in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, where fake railway lines had to be laid down for the film.