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Hatch, Robert | November 10, 1956 issue

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Michael Todd has a touching faith in size. When he puts on a show, his unit of measurement is an elephant and his idea of lavish entertainment is to employ Sir John Gielgud and Frank Sinatra in bit parts. "Around the World in Eighty Days" used more famous actors and covered more ground and consumed more sandwich lunches on location than any picture in history. It runs for three hours across the enormous curved screen of Todd-AO and 33 assistant directors participated in the task of moving 68,984 persons through 2,000 camera set-ups.

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AROUND the World in 80 Days (Film); TODD, Michael; MOTION pictures; GIELGUD, John, 1904-2000; SINATRA, Frank, 1915-1998; ARTISTS
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