Seven Wonders of the World (film)

Seven Wonders of the World
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 (1956-04-10)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$6.5 million (US/Canada)

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".

Cast

• Lowell Thomas as himself
• Paul Mantz as himself
• Claude Dauphin as Narrator (French version) / Récitant (voice)

Production

Merian C. Cooper started Seven Wonders of the World as the second Cinerama film after 1952's This Is Cinerama. By September 1953, $1 million had already been spent and it was estimated that it would cost a further $1 million to complete.

Stanley Warner Corp. acquired the rights to the film (and all Cinerama product) during production.

Cinerama Holiday, which started production later, was released before Seven Wonders of the World, which then became the third Cinerama film to be released.

Reception

By January 1958, the film grossed $6.5 million in the United States and Canada. It spent more than 14 months on release at the Casino Theatre in Buenos Aires, a record run in Argentina.

See also

• List of American films of 1956
• The Colossus of Rhodes

External links

• Seven Wonders of the World at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Seven Wonders of the World at IMDb
• Travel log of Seven Wonders of the World Archived 2021-04-20 at the Wayback Machine