Five Weeks in a Balloon (film) intended to exploit the hype of Fox’s own "Cleopatra" (1963). Allen's film is played much more for comedy than Juran's film. In Verne's novel and the Woolner Brothers' film, the balloon was named the "Victoria". Allen's film renames it the "Jupiter" with Allen giving the name "Jupiter II" to the spaceship on "Lost in Space". Filming took place in early 1962. It was the only film being made on the Fox lot at the time, due to costs incurred by "Cleopatra" (1963). The film was entirely shot in Hollywood except for some second unit shots in Africa. Allen wanted to
Somewhere I'll Find You "Red Light" but changed back to "Somewhere I'll Find You" before its release. It was the last film made by Gable prior to his military service during World War II; he did not make another film until 1945. The film was, like the Gable/Turner pairing in "Honky Tonk" (1941), a box office success. The pair later made two more films together, "Homecoming" (1948) and "Betrayed" (1954). Both those movies, like "Somewhere I'll Find You," had Gable and Turner serving as comrades and lovers in World War II. According to MGM records the film earned $2,885,000 in the US and Canada