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Release Date:
24 August 1966 (USA)
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Tagline:
The screen's most fantastic voyage more
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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 3 wins
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4 nominations
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(41 articles)
Avatar Sequels and James Cameron’s Other Fantastic Voyage
(From HeyUGuys. 11 December 2009, 2:00 PM, PST)
Next for Cameron: Two 'Avatar' Sequels and 'Fantastic Voyage'
(From Cinematical. 11 December 2009, 9:45 AM, PST)
(From HeyUGuys. 11 December 2009, 2:00 PM, PST)
Next for Cameron: Two 'Avatar' Sequels and 'Fantastic Voyage'
(From Cinematical. 11 December 2009, 9:45 AM, PST)
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You're going to see things no one has ever seen before
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Cast
(Complete credited 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 |
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Rated PG for mild violence and language.
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100 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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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
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When filming the scene where the other crew members remove attacking antibodies from Ms. Peterson for the first time, director Richard 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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Factual errors: The patient's red blood cells, shown in the various scenes of the miniaturized submarine traveling through blood vessels, are nucleated, which is incorrect. Mammalian, and therefore human, red blood cells have no nuclei; nucleated red blood cells are found in most other animals, however, such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, etc.
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Cora Peterson:
We're going to see things no one has ever seen before. Just think about it.
Grant: That's the trouble. I am.
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Grant: That's the trouble. I am.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Armageddon (1998/I)
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Wasn't this movie based on an Isaac Asimov tale?Wasn't this movie remade in the 1980s?
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"Fantastic Voyage" follows a surgical team of three scientists: Dr Peter Duval, the top brain surgeon in the country (Arthur Kennedy); Cora Peterson, his technical assistant (Raquel Welch); Dr Michaels, chief of the medical mission (Donald Pleasance), plus the skipper of the ship (William Redfield) and Grant (Stephen Boyd) the security agent for security purposes...
The sealed vesselThe Proteusis reduced down by a secret branch called CMDF (Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces) and injected into one artery of a defecting Russian scientist who has suffered brain injury and he's in a coma from an assassination attempt... The crew must navigate to the scientist's brain (within exactly 60 minutes) where Dr Duval will attempt to dissolve the coagulum with a laser beam After that everything starts growing back to its original size
"Fantastic Voyage" is a film of authentic wonder: An ocean of life, the corpuscles, the heart, the lungs of the human body through which the crew move are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality...
The plot creates unceasing moments of suspense as the ship and its crew are continually threatened by the scientist's natural defenses: white corpuscles, reticular fibers, antibodies and other factors Leonard Rosenman's futuristic score nicely complements the adventure on screen with the strange sound of the human blood rushing through arteries, veins, rhythmical muscular movements, and of course, the sabotage occurred on board
With two Oscar Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction, 'Fatastic Voyage' is certainly the most unusual journey into the human body, where 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.'