Fantastic Voyage (1966) ( Microscopia (Strange Journey) )

Fantastic Voyage (1966) (DVD) (*)

$25.99

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

Language Selections:
Czech ( Subtitles )
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Surround )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Hebrew ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Icelandic ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

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.

The battle being waged by the super powers is who can perfect miniaturization. Now both sides are stumped as to how to control it. So far they can miniaturize anything but up to 60 minutes only. A scientist who is believed to have solved it, was about to give it to the Americans when an attempt is made on his life. Fortunately he is not dead but he is in a coma and any conventional means to operate could be fatal. So a plan is made to miniaturize a vessel and a team of doctors send them into the man's body and that they will go to the damaged area and fix it. Problem is that there is a report that someone on the team could be working for the other side. So they send Grant, a government agent to make sure everything goes OK.

A scientist 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.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 08 March, 2011.