Stowaway in the Sky

1960 [FRENCH]

Adventure / Family

2
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 276 276

Plot summary

A small child, fascinated by a lighter-than-air balloon, clambers aboard. The balloon takes flight, lifting the child upward to an amazing adventure. The land-bound adults have conniptions as the balloon wafts by; the child has nothing more than a great time.

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768.66 MB
1280*544
French 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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1.39 GB
1920*816
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tim-kail 9 / 10

A Beautiful Airborne Voyage

Like its many lengthy tracking shots that hover over Paris and the Parisian countryside, the quality of this film crept up on me. I'm watching Lamorisse's films in the recently released Criterion collection and this is easily my favorite apart from The Red Balloon. Its characters/acting can be a little silly at times, but this just gives the film a sense of whimsy. The beauty on-screen here really captured me. It wasn't until halfway through the film that I started to become aware of how much I was enjoying it - it has a hypnotic quality. I felt like I was in a sidecar on the balloon (how they got some shots blows my mind).This is a very nice movie to be enjoyed with kids on a quiet weekend.
Reviewed by JTHOMPSO 1 / 10

Good intentions are not enough.

After the huge success of THE RED BALLOON in this country Jack Lemmon bought the US distribution rights of Albert Lamorisse's next film VOYAGE EN BALLON. But instead of releasing a dubbed version here he hired Broadway veteran S. N. Berhman to write a script & re-recorded the film's soundtrack with himself reading this script. Berhman's script takes away all the mystery from Lamorisse's little movie & negates its visual composition. Lemmon's cacophony throughly trashes Jean Prodromides' beautiful score. As a topper Berhman's script has references to adult sexuality (this in a children's movie) which are meant to be sophisticated & amusing but are not. Won't some one please give us the original?
Reviewed by SanDiego

Sequel to THE RED BALLOON

First, I am happy to see that this film has been re-released to video and perhaps a DVD is to follow. As a follow up to THE RED BALLOON I like the French title VOYAGE EN BALLON better than STOWAWAY IN THE SKY. This is a gentle film that floats you across the French countrysides and town church steeples. One of the six classic Albert Lamorisse films for children this was his first full length feature and sequel to THE RED BALLON. Once again starring Lamorisse's son Pascal in the lead role, this time stowing away in a 60-foot tall orange balloon his grandfather made. The two journey across France in an adventure that is brilliantly and colorfully photographed. The only disappointment is that the balloon should have been red (a reincarnation of the balloon from the first film), but perhaps orange was a better choice against the French backdrop. If you loved THE RED BALLOON, this is a must for you.
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