STARRING:
Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasance,
Arthur O'Connell, Arthur Kennedy
1966, 100 Minutes, Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Description:When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an
inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret
journey to the center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to
microbial dimensions. —
Amazon.com
This film, based on the adventures of a submarine crew of sorts shrunk to
microscopic size and injected into somebody's bloodstream, was later novelised
by Isaac
Asimov (although it wasn't his story idea). Later on, Innerspace would use the same
premise.
Unfortunately Fantastic
Voyage has aged
badly and the once revolutionary special effects not merely pales in comparison
to many of today's offerings, but looks downright silly. With little else to
compensate, this rather slow film would of curiosity value to film scholars, but little else.
