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Fantastic Voyage
When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him.
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- Trivia Medical schools, at least as late as the 1980s, showed clips from this movie to illustrate various concepts in human anatomy, physiology, and especially immunology.
- Goofs The amount of radioactive material for the sub would not need a lead carrying case. Grant proves this by removing the container from the case with no protection and handing it to Owens who inserts it into the reactor, again bare-handed.
[as the submarine enters the brain]
Dr. Duval : Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought...
Grant : ...proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man.
Dr. Michaels : Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul.
Dr. Duval : The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity, and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite.
Dr. Michaels : Yes, but our time isn't.
- Alternate versions The DVD edition has the following prologue: "The makers of this film are indebted to the many doctors, technicians and research scientists, whose knowledge and insight helped guide this production" The TV/Video version features this prologue instead: "This film will take you where no one has ever been before; no eye witness has actually seen what you are about to see. But in this world of ours where going to the moon will soon be upon us and where the most incredible things are happening all around us, someday, perhaps tomorrow, the fantastic events you are about to see can and will take place."
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Cast & crew, richard fleischer, stephen boyd, raquel welch, edmond o'brien, donald pleasence, arthur o'connell, photos & videos, technical specs.
In 1995 Czech scientist Jan Benes escapes from behind the Iron Curtain and is brought to the United States for interrogation. U. S. scientists are able to reduce objects, including people, to the size of bacteria, but the miniaturization can be sustained for only 60 minutes. The Czech scientist has learned the secret of prolonging the miniaturization; but before he reveals this knowledge, he sustains a severe brain injury which can be treated only from within his body. A plan is conceived whereby a crew of five will be placed in an atomic-powered submarine, miniaturized, injected into the scientist's bloodstream, and set on a course through the arteries to the brain. In addition to American secret agent Grant, the crew consists of Dr. Duval, the surgeon who will perform the operation; Cora Peterson, his assistant; Dr. Michaels, a circulatory expert; and Captain Owens, the sub's pilot. To save some of the 60 minutes, the group decides to stop the scientist's heart to allow the submarine to pass through the heart. Then Grant and the crew leave the sub, and by means of a snorkel tube attached to the patient's lungs, replenish their oxygen supply. As they near their destination, a nurse in the operating room drops a pair of surgical scissors, and the sound causes tremendous vibrations in the sub that hurl the crew from their positions. With only 6 minutes left, Dr. Michaels reveals himself to be an enemy agent intent on sabotaging the mission. The remaining crew members escape as white corpuscles envelop and digest both the submarine and Michaels. The operation is successfully performed by removing a blood clot with a laser beam, and the four survivors leave the scientist's body by swimming along the optic nerve and emerging through a tear duct.
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Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought - - Dr. Duval
- proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man... - Grant
Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul. - Dr. Michaels
The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity - and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite. - Dr. Duval
Yes, well, our time isn't. - Dr. Michaels
The medieval philosophers were right. Man is the center of the universe. We stand in the middle of infinity between outer and inner space, and there's no limit to either. - Dr. Peter Duval
Isaac Asimov was approached to write the novel from the script. He perused the script, and declared the script to be full of plot holes. Receiving permission to write the book the way he wanted, delays in filming and the speed at which he wrote saw the book appear before the film. Asimov fixed several plot holes in the book version, but this had no effect on the film (see the Goofs entry).
The scenes of crewmembers swimming outside the sub were shot on dry soundstages with the actors suspended from wires. There was some additional hazard involved because, to avoid reflections from the metal, the wires were washed in acid to roughen them, which made them more likely to break. To create the impression of swimming in a resisting medium, the scenes were shot at 50% greater speed than normal, then played back at normal speed.
As a college student, director Fleischer was a pre-med student for a time.
When filming the scene where the other crew members remove attacking antibodies from Ms. Peterson for the first time, director Fleischer allowed the actors to grab what they pleased. Gentlemen all, they specifically avoided removing them from Raquel Welch's breasts, with an end result that the director described as a "Las Vegas showgirl" effect. Fleischer pointed this out to the cast members -- and on the second try, the actors all reached for her breasts. Finally the director realized that he would have to choreograph who removed what from where, and the result is seen in the final cut.
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Released in United States July 1966
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1966
Released in USA on video.
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Fantastic voyage.
Directed by Richard Fleischer
A Fantastic and Spectacular Voyage... Through the Human Body... Into the Brain.
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch Edmond O'Brien Donald Pleasence Arthur O'Connell William Redfield Arthur Kennedy Jean Del Val Barry Coe Ken Scott Shelby Grant James Brolin Brendan Fitzgerald Brendon Boone James Doohan Kenneth MacDonald Christopher Riordan
Director Director
Richard Fleischer
Producer Producer
Writers writers.
David Duncan Harry Kleiner
Story Story
Jerome Bixby Otto Klement
Editor Editor
William B. Murphy
Cinematography Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Assistant Director Asst. Director
Ad Schaumer
Art Direction Art Direction
Jack Martin Smith Dale Hennesy
Set Decoration Set Decoration
Stuart A. Reiss Walter M. Scott
Special Effects Special Effects
Art Cruickshank Emil Kosa Jr. L.B. Abbott
Title Design Title Design
Richard Kuhn
Composer Composer
Leonard Rosenman
Sound Sound
David Dockendorf Bernard Freericks
Makeup Makeup
Hairstyling hairstyling.
Margaret Donovan
20th Century Fox
Primary Language
Spoken languages.
English French
Releases by Date
24 aug 1966, 30 sep 1966, 14 oct 1966, 20 oct 1966, 28 nov 1966, 23 dec 1966, 13 jan 1967, 23 jan 1967, 05 sep 2000, 22 dec 2003, 12 jan 2005, 05 jun 2007, 08 oct 2013, 18 oct 2013, releases by country.
- Physical L Fox
- Theatrical U
- Theatrical 12
- Theatrical T
- Theatrical 15
- Physical 15 DVD release
- Physical 15 Blu-ray release
- Theatrical PG
- Physical PG Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea / Fantastic Voyage DVD Double Feature
- Physical PG DVD Release
- Physical PG Blu-Ray Release
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Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 2
It's one of my all time favorite sci-fi films! I was hooked on the tv series Voyage to the bottom of the sea and then Fantastic Voyage came out with a submarine navigating the human body and I about went out of my ever livin mind!
I was glued to the screen, slack jawed and drooling! I'm describing my recent viewing not my experience as a kid! The film is absolutely mind boggling!
Sure it's kitschy, that's part of its charm, come on cut it some hard earned slack, it's nearly 50 years old and for its day it was quite a technical marvel! It was just as exciting today as the day it was released!
Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½
I really loved how well thought out this movie was, making the miniaturization of people , and the medical application of the miniaturization, almost seem scientifically plausible.
The opening credits were beautiful.
Raquel Welch was beautiful. 😍
I'm glad to have finally crossed Fantastic Voyage off my list of shame.
Review by russman ★★★ 6
Insane in the membrane
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★ 6
If you've seen that episode of The Magic School Bus this isn't terribly different. It's 60's sci-fi, so there's a laser beam and pervasive fear of communism, but otherwise it's pretty much the same. A group of scientists enter the human body to fix it from the inside. The sets both inside and outside the body are absolutely magnificent in every sense of the word, and the special effects are obvious by today's standards but not without their unique charms. The screenplay is a bit simplistic which robs the movie of most of its tension ( apparently Isaac Asimov said it was full of plot holes), and too much of it is just actors staring at special effects, but for the…
Review by Travis Lytle ★★★★½ 6
Richard Fleischer's "Fantastic Voyage" is a fun yet serious-toned slice of 1960s science fiction. Earnest where it could have been silly, and scientifically minded where it could have been overly far-fetched, the film is a neatly assembled, semi-plausible, and engaging adventure.
Starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, and Donald Pleasance, the film is built around the fantastic voyage of a team of scientists that is miniaturized and injected into a man's body in order the save his life. The story is split between the minuscule team, maneuvering through arteries and organs, and its handlers in a secret, underground, government complex. The story is told seriously and treated without any whimsy that could have turned the tale hokey. As the team is…
Review by noir1946 ★★★★ 2
“The other side got to him.”
I saw Fantastic Voyage when it was released and enjoyed it with reservations. I watched it again many years later but don’t’ recall any reaction other than those same reservations. On this third viewing, having acquired many more layers of pulp in the interim, I enjoyed it more than ever, though those darn reservations keep lurking around.
What’s fun about Fantastic Voyage includes the outlandish premise. Our hero, Grant (Stephen Boyd), is summoned to this secret government facility in the middle of the night, yet dozens of employes are strolling around, an awful lot of folks to be trusted not to spill the beans to The National Enquirer . Grant learns what’s so secret and…
Review by Justin Decloux ★★★½
"Oh shit, did we forget the sub in the guy?"
[Man explodes]
Review by ᴬⁿᵗʰᵒⁿʸ ⛧ ★★★
One of my favorite opening credits of all time. 💉
Review by Ben Hibburd ☘🏀 ★★★½ 17
It feels like an eternity since I last reviewed a classic Sci-Fi film on my account. I've been feeling a little lost these last couple of months. My interest in writing and this site have been waning whilst other hobbies such as reading and drawing have been taking precedent.
Anyway, I read Issac Asimov's novelisation of this film a few months ago and stumbled across this movie upon my bi-weekly trip to my local video store. So I thought it would be fitting to get back to my early roots of this account and review a schlocky 50's, although in this case 60's science fiction film.
I'm sure by now the gist of this story is well known in pop…
Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★½
Got deja vu when watching this, because shrinking is involved just like when I was watching Spies in Disguise that same afternoon...
Review by Tanner ★★★ 1
Well, no Ant-Man for me this weekend because my movie buddy got sick and I don't want to go without them. Yes, I'm still excited for it despite the reception. So I decided to to turn to a couple of alternatives for my shrinking entertainment needs.
A Cold War, not of nuclear arsenals but of a fantastic new technology — the ability to miniaturize matter but only for the duration of an hour. Dr. Jan Benes has perfected the technology, allowing for it to be used indefinitely. The only problem being that both sides know about it. When he defects to the U.S., an assassination attempt leaves him comatose and with a blood clot threatening his life. With the secrets…
Review by Brian Formo ★★½
The production design, the sheer look of Fantastic Voyage , is fantastic. And I don’t just mean the pillowy flutters of the ear canal. I’m actually probably more taken by the base camp, with its honeycomb shrinking floor, banking tube shoots full of liquid, and a giant red and blue Operation-styled mock-up of the body. This is the perfect movie to have on behind folks, playing silently during a party, because everything exciting here is in the background. The story foreground—of shrunken scientists racing against their own body clocks to save the head scientist who's in a coma—is a vinyl clad shrug. Because the infighting and sci-fi dialogue in the ear canal is pretty staid. The landscapes are livelier than the…
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Fantastic Voyage Reviews
With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period's most imaginative efforts.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 23, 2023
…even if the process work is poor by today’s standards, this voyage still seems fantastic today…
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2023
The science is shaky at best but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers.
Full Review | Mar 4, 2023
A nonstop adventure of sizable proportions.
Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 24, 2020
Technically, the film is only too obviously under all kinds of strain, as if trying to live up to a budget which it never wanted in the first place.
Full Review | Apr 2, 2020
Ignoring the painfully slow first third, the rest of the film is an enjoyable, basic sci-fi adventure. It won't wow you, but it will entertain you.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2019
"Fantastic Voyage" is a fun adventure with some incredible sets representing the inside of the human body. What it lacks in reality is made up by beauty and skill.
Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2013
Not be as suspenseful as it once was, because we've seen many shots of the body's interior and we no longer have the undercurrents of the Cold War that made life itself an edge-of-the-seat affair. But it's still a fun sci-fi excursion.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 11, 2013
Despite the film being nearly 50 years old, it's still pretty impressive what they were able to accomplish using practical photography. Sure it's campy, but it's the kitschy design that makes it so much fun to watch.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 7, 2013
That it carries the viewer along is thanks largely to its kitsch charm, its energetic pace and the stunning sets designed by Harper Goff.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2013
Half planetarium, half lava lamp
Full Review | Feb 6, 2010
Fascinating still, but suffers from lack of more sophisticated special effects. Still...imagine Raquel Welch moving around inside.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2009
Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2007
The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space -- the body of a man.
Full Review | Jun 4, 2007
This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it's the screwball poetry of the plot.
...our own human interior was revealed, like a Jacques Cousteau travelogue, in screen-filling vistas of surreal canals and chambers filled with floating psychedelia and the amorphous Jell-O colors of a Jimi Hendrix concert.
Full Review | Jun 3, 2007
An opportunity missed, therefore -- especially as the imaginative sets are slightly tackily realised -- but fun all the same.
Full Review | Jan 26, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2005
Well directed science fiction
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2005
Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
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.
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Fantastic Voyage
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Very nearly a corking sci-fi lark, kicking off from the premise that when a top scientist defecting to the West suffers brain damage in an assassination attempt, the only answer is to inject a miniaturised submarine and medical team through his bloodstream to deal with the clot on his brain. The voyage through the fantastic landscapes of the body is brilliantly imagined, with the heart a cavernous vault, tidal waves menacing the canals of the inner ear (caused when a nurse drops an instrument in the operating theatre), cyclonic winds tossing the sub helplessly about as the lungs are reached. The script, alas, is pretty basic, expending half its energies on delivering a gee-whiz medical lecture, the other on whipping up suspense around the mysterious saboteur who lurks aboard (and is so sweatily shifty-eyed that there isn't much mystery). An opportunity missed, therefore - especially as the imaginative sets are slightly tackily realised - but fun all the same.
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- Duration: 100 mins
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- Director: Richard Fleischer
- Screenwriter: Harry Kleiner
- Edmond O'Brien
- Stephen Boyd
- Raquel Welch
- Arthur Kennedy
- Arthur O'Connell
- Donald Pleasence
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Fantastic Voyage: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him.
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.The film is about a submarine crew who is shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain.
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Fantastic Voyage. The crew of a miniaturized submarine is injected into a man's body on a mission to rid the brain of a deadly blood clot in this 1966 tale. IMDb 6.8 1 h 40 min 1966. X-Ray 7+. Adventure · Science Fiction · Strange · Wondrous. Available to rent or buy.
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a submarine crew who is shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain. In adapting the story for his script, Kleiner abandoned all but the ...
Fantastic Voyage. The crew of a miniaturized submarine is injected into a man's body on a mission to rid the brain of a deadly blood clot in this 1966 tale. 2,490 IMDb 6.8 1 h 40 min 1966. X-Ray 7+. Adventure · Science Fiction · Strange · Wondrous. Available to rent or buy.
Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch star in this imaginative sci-fi adventure. When a scientist who holds the secret of miniaturization goes coma...
A scene from Fantastic Voyage (1966), directed by Richard Fleischer. Fantastic Voyage, American science-fiction film, released in 1966, that is especially noted for its special effects, which were used to simulate a journey through the human body. (Read Martin Scorsese's Britannica essay on film preservation.)
Fantastic Voyage (1966) -- (Movie Clip) There Should Be A Tremendous Surge Knocked off course by an undetected medical condition, supervised by military brass Arthur O'Connell and Edmond O'Brien, the crew of the miniaturized submarine (Arthur Kennedy, Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, William Redfield) attempt to shoot through the temporarily stopped heart of their Cold War ...
The brilliant scientist Jan Benes (Jean Del Val) develops a way to shrink humans, and other objects, for brief periods of time. Benes, who is working in communist Russia, is transported by the CIA ...
Fantastic Voyage (1966) Trailer - Check out the official trailer for "Fantastic Voyage," a 1966 movie starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, and Edmond O'Brien...
A true science fiction classic. Review by Corey Redekop ★★★★½. From my list Book/Movie Combos I Own: Novelization: Fantastic Voyage, Isaac Asimov. Comparison: Sure, Isaac Asimov is a sci-fi legend (for good reason), but that's not to say he's not without faults. While Fantastic Voyage (the movie) is a stone-cold classic of cinematic ...
Ignoring the painfully slow first third, the rest of the film is an enjoyable, basic sci-fi adventure. It won't wow you, but it will entertain you. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2019 ...
United States, 1966. Cult, Sci-Fi, Adventure. 100. Synopsis. 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. ... FANTASTIC VOYAGE. Trailer. Directed by. Richard Fleischer. United ...
Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction television series based on the famous 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The series consists of 17 half-hour episodes, airing Saturday mornings on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968, through January 4, 1969, then rebroadcast the following fall season. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox ...
The voyage through the fantastic landscapes of the body is brilliantly imagined, with the heart a cavernous vault, tidal waves menacing the canals of the inner ear (caused when a nurse drops an ...