Eighty days, 175 minutes, 13 countries, 44 star cameos, five Oscars and one mighty adventure. It's a whopper, all right, but this epic 1956 adap of Jules Verne's 1870 classic holds up better as an epitaph to the outrageous tenacity of showman-producer Michael Todd than as rollicking entertainment.

With David Niven a perfectly debonair Phileas Fogg and legendary Mexican comic Cantinflas as his sidekick, many of the set-pieces (bullfighting in Spain, battling Sioux savages in the Wild West, rescuing Shirley MacLaine in India) are corkers. Still, 80 days isn't exactly easy on the arse, and the globetrotting plot leaves it all feeling rather like a vintage travel advert. Luckily, you can always play Spot The Star, with everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Frank Sinatra to Buster Keaton studding the scenery.

DVD Extras:

This reverential two-discer begins with BBC Radio's Brian Sibley, whose commentary stays info-heavy despite descending into a series of actor biogs. TCM bod Robert Osborne gives cosy intros to the other extras, which include 11 dialogue-free outtakes, footage from the première and the 1957 Oscars, plus highlights of a 1957 playhouse broadcast. The centrepiece, though, is an Orson Welles-narrated documentary on the remarkable life of producer Todd, "one of the great egotists of showbusiness".