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Fantastic Voyage (1966)

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Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a submarine crew who shrink to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair the damage to his brain. The original story took place in the 19th century and was meant to be a Jules Verne–style adventure with a sense of wonder. Kleiner abandoned all but the concept of miniaturization and added a Cold War element. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence. It was 20th Century-Fox's final film to use the CinemaScope process. Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed the film was based on Asimov's book. The movie inspired an animated television series.

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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

Otto Klement Jerome Bixby

Editor Editor

William B. Murphy

Cinematography Cinematography

Ernest Laszlo

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Ad Schaumer

Art Direction Art Direction

Dale Hennesy Jack Martin Smith

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Stuart A. Reiss Walter M. Scott

Special Effects Special Effects

L.B. Abbott Art Cruickshank Emil Kosa Jr.

Title Design Title Design

Richard Kuhn

Composer Composer

Leonard Rosenman

Sound Sound

Bernard Freericks David Dockendorf

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Margaret Donovan

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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.

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• Theatrical 12
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• 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
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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 Robert Hayes ★★★½

A bit on the dramatically cheesy side, but had some fantastic visuals and effects.

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 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 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…

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