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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1966
Running Times: 100 mins
Format: colour 35mm
CinemaScope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: Saul David
Unit Production Manager: Eric Stacey
SCRIPT
Script: Harry Kleiner
Story: Otto Klement, Jay Lewis Bixby
Adaptation: David Duncan
DIRECTION
Director: Richard
Fleischer
Assistant Director: Ad Schaumer
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo
Colour: DeLuxe
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: William B. Murphy
MUSIC
Music: Leonard Rosenman
SOUND
Sound: Bernard Freericks, David Dockendorf
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Ben Nye
Hair: Margaret Donovan
VISUAL
EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: L.B. Abbott, Art Cruickshank, Emil Kosa
Jr
Titles: Richard Kuhn, National Screen Service
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy
Set Decorators: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Advisor: Fred Zendar
Technical Advisor Flying Sequences: Peter Foy
Creative Production Research: Harper Goff
LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California, USA
CAST
Stephen Boyd (Grant)
Raquel Welch (Cora Peterson)
Edmond O'Brien (General Carter)
Donald Pleasence (Dr Michaels)
Arthur O'Connell (Colonel Donald Reid)
William Redfield (Captain Bill Owens)
Arthur Kennedy (Dr Duval)
Jean Del Val (Jan Benes)
Barry Coe (communications aide)
Ken Scott (Secret Service agent)
Shelby Grant (nurse)
James Brolin (technician)
Brendan Fitzgerald (wireless operator)
SUMMARY
A key diplomat is shot by assassins and lies dying
on the operating table, a bullet lodged beyond the reach of conventional
surgery. His only hope are a team of surgeons and scientists who are
miniaturized and, aboard a similarly shrunken hi-tech submarine, injected
into his bloodstream. They have just 60 minutes to save the diplomat
before they revert to their normal size but they have to battle antibodies
and a saboteur along the way.
CAPSULE REVIEW
It may not make an awful lot of scientific sense
and the plot is peppered with holes and inconsistencies, but Fantastic
Voyage is nonetheless a stylish and exciting SF classic. Fleischer's
direction ratchets up the tension admirably, the effects are stunning
(they were deservedly rewarded at the Oscars) and overall it's a fantastic
romp that still holds up well today. Only the rather stiff acting and
those narrative implausibilities let it down.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore (EE 1060); CBS-Fox (1002-80)
DVD Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2000580 -
double bill with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-12
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: U
USA
Rating: PG (for mild violence and language)
West Germany
Rating: 12
AWARDS
1967
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (Dale Hennesy, Stuart A. Reiss,
Walter M. Scott, Jack Martin Smith) - winner
Best Effects, Special Visual Effects (Art Cruickshank) - winner
Best Cinematography, Color (Ernest Laszlo) - nominated
Best Effects, Sound Effects (Walter Rossi) - nominated
Best Film Editing (William B. Murphy) - nominated
American Cinema Editors, USA
Eddie: Best Edited Feature Film (William B. Murphy) - winner
Hugo Awards
Best Dramatic Presentation - nominated
Laurel Awards
Golden Laurel Action Drama - 3rd place
TIMELINE
1966
August
24: USA - theatrical release
1967
January
23: Sweden - theatrical release
February
24: Finland - theatrical release
1996
December
Day Unknown: USA - laserdisc release (Encore (EE 1060))
2000
September
5: USA - DVD release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2000580
- double bill with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea))
2006
February
13: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)
April
4: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
14: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
24: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
29: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
May
10: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
POSTER TAGS
A Fantastic And Spectacular Voyage... Through The Human
Body... Into The Brain.
Journey Into The Living Body Of A Man!
Four men and one woman on the most fantastic, spectacular
and terrifying journey of their lives...
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Den fantastiska resan - Swedish title
Fantastinen matka - Finnish title
Fantastisch Experiment - Dutch title
Fantastyczna podróz - Polish title
Fantasztikus utazás - Hungarian title
Microscopia - early title
Die Phantastische Reise - German title
Strange Journey
Viagem Fantástica - Portugese title
Viaggio allucinante - Italian title
Viaje alucinante - Spanish title
El viaje fantástico - Venezuelan title
Le voyage fantastique - French title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Innerspace (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
The Dark Side January/February 1996 p.19
review
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.131
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.133
credits
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
assasination attempts, diplomats, doctors, lasers,
military, miniaturisation, sabotage, saboteurs, scientists, submarines
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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