20 Films From The 1950s That Everybody Should Watch

16. Around The World In Eighty Days

Michael Anderson's 1956 epic is a perfect example of the extravagance and far-reaching limits that '50s cinema was stretching to in its bid to hold on to a jeopardised audience. Costing just under $6 million to produce, Around The World In Eighty Days of nearly 70,000 people, including over 40 famous cameo appearances from the likes of Frank Sinatra, Evelyn Keyes, and Buster Keaton. That's not bad for a film that encompasses 112 different locations and took only 75 days to actually complete. To match its epic proportions, the film was shot using 70mm film. It was released to an astonished audience and a seemingly endless list of awards and nominations, and was so popular with leading man David Niven himself that he claimed he would have done the film for free. To his relief, he actually made a lot of money from the picture. Like... a lot.