Flight of the Lost Balloon

1961
1h 31min

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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA 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 ... Leer todoA 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.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.

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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.

Pifias
In the castle - notably in the scene with the gorillas - a switch-box and electrical conduit are clearly visible on the wall. The story takes place in 1878, long before such electrical equipment would have been installed.

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Hindu: Don't be misled. There could be a thousand cannibals beneath those fronds and you wouldn't see one. It was among these very trees that the unfortunate Frenchman Maison was murdered in 1845.
[picks up a piece of cheese]
Hindu: He was captured by the cannibals of the region and tied to the foot of a giant cocoa palm.
[begins cutting the cheese]
Hindu: Then the savage chief cut him slowly, limb from limb, and then literally tore the half-severed head from the body. Maison was only 26. Cheese?
[offers Ellen some cheese]

Créditos adicionales
Veteran makeup artist Charles Gemora is credited as "Charles Gumora."

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Referenced in Fantastical Features - Nathan Juran at Columbia (2023)

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3/10

Cleo's Family Jewels

American-International Pictures usually the venue for Roger Corman at the time made this Victorian monstrosity Flight Of The Lost Balloon about a journey across Africa in a balloon. Shortly afterwards Five Weeks In A Balloon came out and was miles better than this.

For one thing this film could use a restoration if someone wanted to bother. The color is very washed out.

Puerto Rico stands in for Africa for the location shooting as Marshall Thompson and Mala Powers set forth to rescue Douglas Kennedy being held prisoner in a castle on an island in the middle of Lake Victoria. The mysterious Hindu who guides Thompson and Powers there is the owner of said castle and he wants Kennedy to spill the beans in regard to Cleopatra's treasure. Cleo didn't die in Egypt she came to the middle of the African veld to do her thing with the asp.

For a film set in Africa, British Africa at that not one of the cast members even attempted a British accent. An indication of the general boredom they had for this project. The situations and the dialog are patently ridiculous, even for a juvenile audience for which this film was intended.