Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Director:

Richard Fleischer

Writers:

Harry Kleiner (screenplay)
David Duncan (adaptation)
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Release Date:

24 August 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The screen's most fantastic voyage

Plot:

A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Blood | Doctor | Body | Coma

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Stephen Boyd	...	Grant
Raquel Welch	...	Cora
Edmond O'Brien	...	General Carter
Donald Pleasence	...	Dr. Michaels
Arthur O'Connell	...	Col. Donald Reid
William Redfield	...	Capt. Bill Owens
Arthur Kennedy	...	Dr. Duval
Jean Del Val	...	Jan Benes
Barry Coe	...	Communications Aide
Ken Scott	...	Secret Service
Shelby Grant	...	Nurse
James Brolin	...	Technician
Brendan Fitzgerald	...	Wireless Operator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Brendon Boone	...	MP (uncredited)
Kenneth MacDonald	...	Henry - Heart Monitoring (uncredited)
Christopher Riordan	...	Young Scientist (uncredited)

Directed by
Richard Fleischer

Writing credits
Harry Kleiner		(screenplay)
David Duncan		(adaptation)
Otto Klement		(story) and
Jerome Bixby		(story) (as Jay Lewis Bixby)

Produced by
Saul David	....	producer

Original Music by
Leonard Rosenman

Cinematography by
Ernest Laszlo		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
William B. Murphy

Art Direction by
Dale Hennesy
Jack Martin Smith

Set Decoration by
Stuart A. Reiss
Walter M. Scott

Makeup Department
Margaret Donovan	....	hair stylist
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Eric Stacey	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ad Schaumer	....	assistant director

Sound Department
David Dockendorf	....	sound
Bernard Freericks	....	sound
Walter Rossi	....	sound effects (uncredited)
Richard Sperber	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Johnny Borgese	....	special effects (uncredited)
Greg C. Jensen	....	special effects (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
L.B. Abbott	....	special photographic effects
Art Cruickshank	....	special photographic effects
Emil Kosa Jr.	....	special photographic effects
Jason Richardson	....	restoration artist (restored version)
Marcel Delgado	....	miniatures (uncredited)

Stunts
Donna Garrett	....	stunts (uncredited)
Sol Gorss	....	stunts (uncredited)

Music Department
Leonard Rosenman	....	conductor (uncredited)
Leonard Rosenman	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Chris Haynes	....	driver (uncredited)

Other crew
Peter Foy	....	technical adviser: flying sequences
Harper Goff	....	creative production researcher
Richard Kuhn	....	titles
Fred Zendar	....	technical adviser
Marie Kenney	....	script supervisor (uncredited)
Christopher Riordan	....	leg double: Steven Boyd (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (presents) (as Twentieth Century-Fox)

Distributors

• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1966) (USA) (theatrical) (released by)
• 20th Century Fox (1966) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (1966) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Centfox (1966) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Fox Films (1967) (Finland) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment España S.A. (2002) (Spain) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Brazil) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2010) (Canada) (DVD) (4 film collection)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD) (4 film collection)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (video)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1969) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Magnetic Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2000) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• National Screen Service  titles
• Mi Casa Multimedia  restoration and preservation
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation  CinemaScope is the registered trademark of

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild violence and language

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:U | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | USA:Approved (certificate #20942) (original rating) | Canada:G (video rating) | Portugal:M/6 | Japan:G (2009) | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles Sports Arena - 3939 S. Figueroa Street, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The time spent in the movie of the crew once they were miniaturized is in real time, taking up almost exactly one hour of the movie.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: As the car disappears down the lift, delivering Grant to CMDF, it should vanish as it is hidden by the hole. Instead the special effects crew elected to shrink the image; we see at least 20 feet of elevation change at the back wall but the car is still visible at foreground.

Quotes:

[Carter reaches out to kill a bug crawling on the table and changes his mind]
Col. Donald Reid:You'll wind up a Hindu. They respect all forms of life, however small.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Dexter's Laboratory: Dee Dee's Room/Dial M for Monkey: Huntor/The Big Sister (#1.6)" (1996)

These People Saved My Life.....

All I can remember, from what the Doctors Told me, These people, where miniaturised, in a Submarine, and injected into my cardioid artery. The first part of the voyage was incident free, until they met with a strong current, and set them off course. They had to go through my heart that the surgeons stopped, this was already slowed down as was my respiration to 6 breathes per minute,After they went through my heart, they revived it (Only just) and proceeded to one of my lungs. There they had to stop, as they ran out of air. You will never guess how they replenished their air supply, they tapped into my left lung and when i inhaled their air supply was filled up. Then they went into my ear and the surgeons had to be quiet!! and after that they finally went into my injured part of my brain. There they used a laser to repair my damage. after that 5 of the team swam towards my optic nerve and the surgeons scooped them out of my tear duct of my left eye. when I came to, the Doctors told me that these brave teams saved my life, and do you know what, I actually believed them. In this review I was reviewing this film , by pretending I was Banes, the shot man. This film is excellent if you want to find out about your body. I enjoy all the special effects, If I was in the team, I'd rather be upstairs, then inside Banes body. I would like to work with the Cornel and be on the computers. I also thought that the Proteuous was beautifully designed and looked correct. The effect of the blood corpuscles can be done with looking at a larva lamp, the blobs are similar.This film is available on DVD, but has to be ordered from Zavvi, formerly virgin record shops and costs £13. they can get it for you in 24 hours and can be delivered to your house for free, or to the shop. I for one, is going to try and get it. I thought that the man who played banes, had an easy part to play in this film. All He had to do, was just lie still and sleep all the way through the film. I recognised Donald Plesence and Racca welsh. So Ends this review I'm going to give this film 10/10.