Fantastic Voyage

1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer

Film · TMDB

6.7

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Released: 1966-08-24101 minDir: Richard FleischerScience Fiction, AdventureBudget: $5.1MBox office: $12.0M

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Cast

Stephen Boyd as Grant
Raquel Welch as Cora
Edmond O'Brien as General Carter
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels
Arthur O'Connell as Col. Donald Reid
William Redfield as Capt. Bill Owens

Themes

coma

Article

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.