Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "The Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Top credits

Directors

Nathan Juran

Writers

Nathan Juran

Cast

Mala Powers — Ellen Burton
Marshall Thompson — Dr. Joseph Faraday
James Lanphier — The Hindu
Douglas Kennedy — Sir Hubert Warrington

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Did you know

• This was the fifth and final feature to be produced by cinematographer Jacques R. Marquette. This was far more upscale than his previous four features including a longer running time and being shot in color and anamorphic widescreen. His career would continue for more than 25 years as a cinematographer.

• Final film performance of Charles Gemora as a gorilla.

• An advertising gimmick used for this film was the giveaway of "motion sickness pills" to ticket buyers. The critics had a field day with it.