Mon, Dec 29, 1975
London, Wednesday, September 2, 1872, Phileas Fogg, member of the Reform club, boasts that he can travel around the world in a maximum of eighty days in front of his peers. He hires one of the waiters of the club, Passepartout, as a valet to come with him on his adventure. Inspector Fix, Scotland Yard, investigates a robbery of the bank of England. Because of an imprecise description of the robbers, he believes that Phileas is the culprit when he meets Passepartout in Suez. He seduces the border guard with the £10.000 reward that is offered for the capture. The guard arrests the American traveler Archibald, who coincidentally, wants to join the Reform club and is prejudiced against Fogg because he opposed his membership. Archibald provokes a duel but both men come out of it alive. However, Phileas Fogg is almost arrested during the border control when opium is somehow found in his luggage, but he buys his freedom with £5.000 and Archibald follows them to get his membership. As they all travel between Bombay and Calcutta, Princess Aouda's old husband the Rajah dies and the custom wants her burnt to death too. She escapes with the help of Nakahira and they ask for the protection of the guardian of the sacred elephant that they met on the way. Fix offers Passepartout £10.000 to help him arrest his master. Passepartout refuses. Fix then tries to buy the elephant before Fogg does. The Princess is arrested before their eyes and Nakahira is offered her freedom because Aouda promises that she will appear to burn willingly. Fix, Archibald and Passepartout disguise as fakirs to attend the ceremony and rescue the Princess. In Calcutta, when Fix overhears that Fogg will not leave without Passepartout, he drugs the valet while Fogg and Aouda start a romance. Aouda's sister Néméa walks in on them and leaves with them. In the South China sea, they shipwreck on an island where Aouda is attacked by a snake that Fogg charms by playing the flute.
Tue, Dec 30, 1975
As the group of friends spends some time in a saloon, Fix poses a female cabaret singer and gets Passepartout to drink a drugged drink. Fix's plan is to rob the money so Fogg cannot go ahead with the trip. Archibald offers to pay for it in exchange for Passepartout's silence so he doesn't appear to buy his membership of the club. Indians attack Fogg's train and abduct Aouda and Nemea. The men track them down and with the help of the cavalry, they rescue them just in time before the two women are sacrificed. As they embark on their last voyage, Fogg's request of maintaining maximum speed has used up all the coal. Fogg buys the ship to burn it little by little as she reaches Liverpool. Passepartout gets back the money from Fix and reveals to Fogg that Archibald has paid for their expenses all along. Once Fogg has swallowed his pride, he realizes that he has missed the last train by 2 minutes and, without money, cannot reach London. He writes his last will and thinks of an eccentric way of committing suicide when he suddenly realizes that due to his trip through several time zones, he is actually one day early. About to leave, he is arrested by Fix and the Liverpool police and ends up in jail. Visited by Aouda, he confesses that although he has known another woman before her, he loves her. Thanks to a hair pin that she forgot, he escapes and appears on time at the club to win his bet. Inspector Fix reveals that the real thief has been arrested and he apologizes.