Fantastic Voyage (1966)
- Directed by
- Richard Fleischer
- Genre
- action film, science fiction film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 493 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A submarine crew is shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of a scientist to perform emergency brain surgery. They must navigate through his bloodstream and organs while avoiding attacks from his immune system.
adventuroustensesuspensefulimaginativeclinicalretro-futuristicclaustrophobicmethodical
What happens
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 which is shrunk to microscopic size and ventures into the body of injured scientist Dr. Jan Benes to repair damage to his brain. In adapting the story for his script, Kleiner added a Cold War element. The film starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, and Arthur Kennedy. 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 film, many people mistakenly believed that the film was based on Asimov's book. Its modern and imaginative production design received five nominations at the 39th Academy Awards mostly in technical departments, winning for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in Color. The film used the concept of miniaturization in science fiction along with The Incredible Shrinking Man and inspired an animated television series of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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