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 | 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:

Blood | Submarine | Tympanic Membrane | Coffee | Military

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
L.B. Abbott	....	special photographic effects
Art Cruickshank	....	special photographic effects
Emil Kosa Jr.	....	special photographic effects
Greg C. Jensen	....	special effects (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Marcel Delgado	....	miniatures (uncredited)

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

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

Other crew
Peter Foy	....	technical adviser: flying sequences
Harper Goff	....	creative production research
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)
• 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 (video)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1969) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2000) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• National Screen Service  titles
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation  CinemaScope is the registered trademark of

Also Known As:

Microscopia
Strange Journey

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild violence and language.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) | Mono

Certification:

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

Filming Locations:

Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

As a college student, director Richard Fleischer was a pre-med student for a time.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The crewmen reported before the sterilization procedure that Benes' heart rate was 32 beats per minute and it was his respiration that was 6 breaths a minute. But even so, these heart rates were still inconsistent.

Quotes:

General Carter: [after the briefing before the mission] Any questions?
Grant: Yes. When can I catch the next train back to town?

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "The Mighty Boosh: Journey to the Centre of the Punk (#3.2)" (2007)

Pretty good little film.

To answer everyone's question about how did Issac Asimov resolve the Proteus issue at the end of the movie; in his novelization of the film (which is a very good sci-fi book on its own), the sub comes out with everyone else in the teardrop along with "a very surprised white blood cell." The scene with Donald Pleasance gave me chills when I saw it as a child and having recently seen it again, it still is creepy. I think this is due to Pleasance's performance more than anything else. I do have to say that seeing Stephen Boyd being driven around the LA Sports Center (subbing for the top secret research center; they had to have everything removed by 5:30 in the afternoon the week they filmed there because sporting events were going on at night) in a golf cart seemed a bit silly but I guess that showed how important he was. With these kinds of films, one has to ignore all certain types of questions about how come this did or didn't happen when the scientists did this and just relax and enjoy it.