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

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)

Trailer

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