Fantastic Voyage ( Strange Journey ) ( Microscopia )

Fantastic Voyage (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Strange Journey
Alternate Title: Microscopia
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1966 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Fleischer

Written By:
Jerome Bixby
David Duncan

Actors:
Stephen Boyd ..... Grant
Raquel Welch ..... Cora
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
Shelby Grant ..... Nurse
James Brolin ..... Technician

Synopsis:

Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a near-death scientist (Jean del Val). Their mission is to relieve a blood clot caused by an assassination attempt. One member of the expedition is bent on sabotage so that the scientist's secrets will die with him. Another member is Raquel Welch, seemingly along for the ride solely because of how she looks in a skintight diving suit. The film's Oscar-winning visual effects (by Art Cruikschank) chart the progress of the voyagers through the scientist's body, burrowing past deadly antibodies, chunks of tobacco residue in the lungs, and other such obstacles. Oscars also went to Jack Martin Smith and Dale Hennesy's art direction and Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss' set decoration. Fantastic Voyage was later spun off into a Saturday morning cartoon series.

A medical team is loaded onto a special submarine which is subsequently minituarized and injected into a scientist's bloodstream. Their mission is to remove a blood clot, but they meet trouble when it turns out that one of their crew is out to sabotage the mission.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.