Around the World in 18 Days

{{short description|1923 film serial}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Around the World in 18 Days

| image = Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923) - 1.jpg

| caption = Stills with William Desmond on the cover of Universal Weekly

| director = B. Reeves Eason
Robert F. Hill

| producer =

| writer = Frank Howard Clark (scenario)
George Bronson Howard (scenario)

| story = Robert Dillon

| starring = William Desmond
Laura La Plante

| cinematography =

| editing =

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1923|1|1}}

| runtime = 12 episodes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Around the World in 18 Days is a 1923 American silent film serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Robert F. Hill. A total of twelve episodes of the serial were released. The film is now considered lost.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AroundTheWorldInEighte1923.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Around the World in Eighteen Days |access-date=April 25, 2008|work=Silent Era| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080512040213/http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AroundtheWorldinEighte1923.html| archive-date=May 12, 2008 | url-status= live}}

Stunt pilot Gene (Jean) Edward Perkins {{Cite book |last=Wise |first=Arthur |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ |title=Stunting in the Cinema |publisher=Constable |year=1973 |isbn=0-09-459090-7 |location=London |pages=133–5 |language=en |oclc= |access-date=24 March 2024 |archive-date=1 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301022926/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ |url-status=live }} fell to his death while shooting an episode where he was to hang from a rope ladder off the side of a plane while attempting to transfer to a moving train.{{Cite web |title=Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927) - Lantern |url=https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/photo33chic_0635 |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=lantern.mediahist.org |archive-date=27 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227054544/https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/photo33chic_0635 |url-status=live }}