Added May 7, 2009
‘Around the world in eighty days’ is a film without any opening titles. Everything typographic is saved for the ending credits, exit music, entr’acte and intermission.
Other movies with entr’actes, intermissions and/or exit music are Gone with the wind (1939), Duel in the sun (1946), High society (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), West side story (1961) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Intermission title
Entr’acte title
The title of the film appears during the closing credits
Exit music title
Title from the 1956 theatrical trailer
Title from the 1983 re-release trailer
Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Trevor Howard, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, John Carradine, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton
Country: USA
Hop on a sailing railroad across The West! Be attacked by fierce prairie Indians! Rescue a Princess in India! Sail a burning Atlantic paddle-wheeler! Fight bulls in Spain! Romp through Paris!
Other titles designed by SAUL BASS: The seven year itch (1955) | Around the world in eighty days (1956) | Vertigo (1958) | The big country (1958) | Anatomy of a murder (1959) | North by northwest (1959) | Psycho (1960) | Spartacus (1960) | West side story (1961) | Advise & Consent (1962) | It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) | In Harm’s Way (1965) | Goodfellas (1990) | Cape Fear (1991) | Casino (1995)
Intermission title
Entr’acte title
The title of the film appears during the closing credits
Exit music title
Title from the 1956 theatrical trailer
Title from the 1983 re-release trailerAround the world in eighty days (1956)
Directed by: Michael AndersonStarring: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Trevor Howard, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, John Carradine, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton
Country: USA
Hop on a sailing railroad across The West! Be attacked by fierce prairie Indians! Rescue a Princess in India! Sail a burning Atlantic paddle-wheeler! Fight bulls in Spain! Romp through Paris!
Other titles designed by SAUL BASS: The seven year itch (1955) | Around the world in eighty days (1956) | Vertigo (1958) | The big country (1958) | Anatomy of a murder (1959) | North by northwest (1959) | Psycho (1960) | Spartacus (1960) | West side story (1961) | Advise & Consent (1962) | It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) | In Harm’s Way (1965) | Goodfellas (1990) | Cape Fear (1991) | Casino (1995)
The “Entr’acte” and “Exit Music” title cards were never shown in the theatrical versions because they didn’t exist. These were made for the home cinema versions only. DVDs of other movies sometimes show “Overture” title cards (e.g. the ones you mentioned above or “Spartacus”, “East of Eden” etc.). In the cinema these movies played the overture music over the closed curtains. No such title cards as well.
As someone says in the audio commentary of the “Spartacus” dvd (I think it was this one.) these title cards were included for the home cinema users so that they don’t think that something is wrong with their home cinema equipment.
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