Five Weeks in a Balloon is a 1962 American historical adventure movie directed by Irwin Allen and is loosely based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It stars Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Richard Haydn, BarBara Luna, Billy Gilbert, Herbert Marshall, Reginald Owen and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.