Five Weeks in a Balloon

DISCOVER...! The slave market of Zanzibar! The forbidden city of Timbuktu! The treacherous Simoon of the Sahara!

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

Red Buttons

Donald O'Shay

Barbara Eden

Susan Gale

Cedric Hardwicke

Fergusson

Peter Lorre

Ahmed

Richard Haydn

Sir Henry Vining

BarBara Luna

Makia

Fabian

Jacques

Billy Gilbert

Sultan/Actioneer

Herbert Marshall

The Prime Minister

Reginald Owen

Consul

Henry Daniell

Sheik Ageiba

Jonathan Gilmore

Chief Slave (uncredited)

Mike Mazurki

Slave Captain