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Flight of the Lost Balloon

  • 1961
  • 1 h 31 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
4,5/10
194
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Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961)
Aventura

Adicionar um enredo no seu 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 ... Ler tudoA 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.

  • Direção
    • Nathan Juran
  • Roteirista
    • Nathan Juran
  • Artistas
    • Mala Powers
    • Marshall Thompson
    • James Lanphier
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    4,5/10
    194
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Nathan Juran
    • Roteirista
      • Nathan Juran
    • Artistas
      • Mala Powers
      • Marshall Thompson
      • James Lanphier
    • 15Avaliações de usuários
    • 3Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Fotos

    Elenco principal11

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    Mala Powers
    Mala Powers
    • Ellen Burton
    Marshall Thompson
    Marshall Thompson
    • Dr. Joseph Faraday
    James Lanphier
    James Lanphier
    • The Hindu
    Douglas Kennedy
    Douglas Kennedy
    • Sir Hubert Warrington
    Robert W. Gillette
    • Sir Adam Burton
    Felippe Birriel
    • Golem
    A.J. Valentine
    • Giles
    Blanquita Romero
    • The Malkia
    Jackie Ronoro
    • Native Dancer
    Marcella Wright
    • Title Song Singer
    • (narração)
    Charles Gemora
    Charles Gemora
    • Gorilla
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • Nathan Juran
    • Roteirista
      • Nathan Juran
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    Avaliações de usuários15

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    4finercreative

    Its a pretty bad movie

    When talking about movies, there are many movies that seem like b-movies, movies of much lower production values than most. What is an example of a b-movie? Well, "Flight of the Lost Balloon" might fit the description of a b movie better than any other movie that I've watched.

    The best part about it is the story. A man goes on a journey across Africa, mostly in a balloon, in order to find an explorer who went missing during a voyage. However, one of the occupants of the balloon takes control of the balloon in order to find a treasure, the same treasure the explorer was looking for. This sound like the plot of an at least above average movie, but every other aspect of the movie brings it down by a lot.

    The sets look cheap and confined, the costumes and props look like something from a town's local stage play, the script is cheesy, the acting is even cheesier, the music is meh, sound effects get reused over and over again, the characters make stupid decisions, and the worst part of the movie was the special effects, which may contain the worst blue screen I've seen in a film. The shots of the condors look straight out of birdemic, and you can see unedited parts of the blue screen.

    Overall, it's not that good of a movie, but I guess it's not all terrible. 4/10.
    3bkoganbing

    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.
    searchanddestroy-1

    Enjoyable little adventure gem

    You can prefer Irwin Allen's FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON more or less the same kind of plot but on a bit better scale though. This one which I speak about is a British production with some US director and actors too, and made by a US movie maker; however the result is spoiled by the fact that the feature is only available in pan and f...scan. I guess the genuine LBX material is lost for good, such a shame. Besides this, the result is OK for the whole family, as were EAST OF SUDAN and SIEGE OF THE SAXONS, also from Nathan Juran the director. Full of charm forever lost, that's the main intetest for this movie.
    7simnia-1

    An adventure film with memorable imagery.

    I remember seeing this film on television multiple times in the early 1960s. It is roughly in the same style and genre of another Jules Verne story and film, "In Search of the Castaways" (1962), which was made into a film at almost the same time and was also shown multiple times on television around 1962-1964. As children, my sister and I were captivated by both these films, and we loved to re-watch both of them on television in those years whenever they were shown.

    By today's standards the effects and acting are weak, but the film is still captivating, memorable, and fires the imagination. The film has a lot of particularly memorable imagery: a basket balloon, a castle-like fortress on a beach, chained gorillas in a dungeon, the lost treasure of Cleopatra, a very tall and eerie black man who can't speak because his tongue was torn out, a torture chamber with a stretching rack, a woman threatened with torture, a man jumping into a lake from the basket balloon, being chased by African natives with spears, cannibals, a shrunken head hanging on a rack, a fight with a medieval mace, a condor attack, having to dump priceless treasure overboard, and so on. Some scenes border on film mastery. For example, it is surprising how much tension could be put into a simple scene of a man gathering water at a river to take back to the balloon while the audience knows that cannibals are watching him from behind the coconut palms. The aerial photography is reasonably inspiring, although admittedly the filmed backdrop effects aren't high quality.

    To clear up some common misperceptions: the basket balloon in the plot is actually a hydrogen balloon, not a hot air balloon. In the story, acid and water are carried on board to generate hydrogen, which is obviously dangerous and this fact figures into the plot since it is too dangerous for the balloon's occupants to fire the musket that they brought along, which leaves them largely at the mercy of attacking condors, spear-throwing African cannibals, and an unwanted guide. Also, the date of Friday, April 7, 1878 is shown at the beginning of this film, on the sign outside the lecture hall, so this is definitely not the medieval period.

    The plot is solid and the imagery great. If only the acting and effects were improved, this could be an outstanding film.
    dpaterson-2

    Racist Tripe

    While I agree with those reviews that found nothing redeeming in The Journey of the Lost Balloon, and am bemused by those that tried to find pieces of cheap quartz in the rough, the film was deeply offensive as it played on the long US history of pervasive, oppressive racism. That the balloon comes down in a jungle and a shoreline where black tribal people live merely sets up the writer and director to show people of color as ludicrous, repugnant, vicious, utterly brainless sub-humans. The clichés are unbearable to watch, including the cliché of the euro-guy outrunning the natives (ha!) and hiding in foliage that the dozen or so indigenous people (otherwise to be assumed as masters of their environment) entirely miss, and then, like dogs, run together after a stick the euro-guy throws to create a diversion. Add to this yet another white guy playing an East Indian named "Hindu" with brown-face on all but the back of his white neck, and we literally have a documentary of racist ideology paraded in minute detail over the course an entire film. Of course we don't want to make such films illegal, but we do want to create a culture where such films are not even imagined.

    To the brown shirts who will counter that these were simply conventions of an earlier and more innocent time, we can only say that this tripe is the cultural flag that flies over such conventions as slave trade, slavery, the Klan, segregation, ghettoization, and mass incarceration. Of which, in addition to this film, the brown shirts are very proud.

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    • Curiosidades
      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.
    • Erros de gravação
      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.
    • Citações

      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]

    • Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
      Veteran makeup artist Charles Gemora is credited as "Charles Gumora."
    • Conexões
      Referenced in Fantastical Features - Nathan Juran at Columbia (2023)

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 28 de dezembro de 1961 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Balon Ile Devrialem
    • Locações de filme
      • Porto Rico
    • Empresa de produção
      • W.M.J. Productions
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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 31 min(91 min)
    • Mixagem de som
      • Mono
    • Proporção
      • 2.35 : 1

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