Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 documentary film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man-made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of the "Wonders of the World".
Seven Wonders of the World | |
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Directed by | Tay Garnett Paul Mantz Andrew Marton Ted Tetzlaff Walter Thompson |
Written by | Prosper Buranelli W. P. Lipscomb |
Produced by | Merian C. Cooper Lowell Thomas |
Starring | Lowell Thomas Paul Mantz |
Cinematography | Harry Squire |
Edited by | Harvey Manger Jack Murray |
Music by | Jerome Moross Emil Newman David Raksin Sol Kaplan (uncredited) |
Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
Release date | April 10, 1956 |
Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $32.1 million (US/Canada)[1] |
Merian C. Cooper started Seven Wonders of the World as the second Cinerama film after 1952's This Is Cinerama.[2] By September 1953, $1 million had already been spent and it was estimated that it would cost a further $1 million to complete.[2]
Stanley Warner Corp. acquired the rights to the film (and all Cinerama product) during production.[2]
Cinerama Holiday, which started production later, was released before Seven Wonders of the World, which then became the third Cinerama film to be released.
The film grossed $32.1 million in the United States and Canada.[1] It spent more than 14 months on release at the Casino Theatre in Buenos Aires, a record run in Argentina.[3]