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Fantastic Voyage

When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him.

• Richard Fleischer
• Harry Kleiner
• David Duncan
• Otto Klement
• Stephen Boyd
• Raquel Welch
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• 72 Metascore
• 4 wins & 6 nominations total

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• Trivia Medical schools, at least as late as the 1980s, showed clips from this movie to illustrate various concepts in human anatomy, physiology, and especially immunology.
• Goofs If the crew members can swim from the brain to the eye in around a minute, why didn't they enter from the eye?

[as the submarine enters the brain]

Dr. Duval : Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought...

Grant : ...proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man.

Dr. Michaels : Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul.

Dr. Duval : The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity, and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite.

Dr. Michaels : Yes, but our time isn't.

• Alternate versions The DVD edition has the following prologue: "The makers of this film are indebted to the many doctors, technicians and research scientists, whose knowledge and insight helped guide this production" The TV/Video version features this prologue instead: "This film will take you where no one has ever been before; no eye witness has actually seen what you are about to see. But in this world of ours where going to the moon will soon be upon us and where the most incredible things are happening all around us, someday, perhaps tomorrow, the fantastic events you are about to see can and will take place."
• Connections Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)

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• September 23, 1966 (Japan)
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• Microscopia
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Raquel Welch , the 1960s international sex symbol whose acting career spanned more than half a century, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.

Welch shot to stardom in the ‘60s with the films “Fantastic Voyage” and “One Million Years B.C.” The pulpy movie poster for the latter famously featured Welch front and center in a doeskin bikini, and the rest was history.

“There was this bikini picture that came out that caused all the stir,” she told the New York Post in 2014. “I had been away shooting the film in the Canary Islands, and it was very remote. By the time I got back, everybody seemed to know who I was. I couldn’t have been happier, really, or more surprised. How was this possible?”

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Raquel Welch, international icon who starred in ‘Fantastic Voyage,’ dies at 82

Raquel Welch, the 1960s legend who starred in ‘One Million Years B.C.’ and ‘Fantastic Voyage,’ has died, her family announced Wednesday. She was 82.

Feb. 15, 2023

Welch acted in more than 30 films, dozens of television shows and made cheeky appearances on variety shows, like when she performed “I’m a Woman” alongside Cher on “The Cher Show” in 1975.

She even appeared on an episode of “Seinfeld,” playing herself, in which she got into a cat fight with Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Elaine, and played Mrs. Windham Vandermark in the 2001 hit film “Legally Blonde.” In 1975, she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress for her role in “The Three Musketeers.”

While many of Welch’s best performances are now hard to find, here’s how you can watch five of her most notable films.

Raquel Welch’s life and career in photos

Here’s a look at Raquel Welch’s life and career in photos, from ‘One Million Years B.C.’ to ‘The Three Musketeers.’

‘Fantastic Voyage’ (1966)

This was Welch’s breakthrough role, in which she portrayed Cora Peterson, the technical assistant for Dr. Duval, in this sci-fi adventure about a submarine crew tasked with repairing the brain of a scientist who’s nearly been assassinated. The crew is shrunken microscopically and injected into the bloodstream of the injured scientist. Naturally, they face many obstacles during their mission.

You can stream “Fantastic Voyage” on HBO Max and Amazon Prime .

‘One Million Years B.C.’ (1966)

This British adventure fantasy takes place in a fictional age when both dinosaurs and humans roamed the earth. Welch starred as Loana, a woman of the Shell tribe. When Tumak is banished from his savage Rock tribe to a harsh desert, he battles various prehistoric creatures before collapsing on a remote beach, which is where he meets Loana. Together they fight hunters and volcanoes and, of course, fall in love.

You can buy “One Million Years B.C.” on DVD and Blu-ray via Amazon .

Raquel Welch was labeled a sex symbol. But she always knew she was much more than that

Actor Raquel Welch, who died Wednesday, spoke to The Times over the years about breaking out as a sex symbol and moving beyond that stereotype.

‘Myra Breckinridge’ (1970)

This 1970 film adaptation of Gore Vidal’s satirical novel starred Welch as a trans woman in the title role. After Myron Breckinridge gets a sex-change operation in Copenhagen, she returns to America as Myra, where she arrives at her Uncle Buck’s acting school claiming to be Myron’s widow and that she’s been granted half of the school or $500,000 in his will.

You can buy “Myra Breckinridge” on DVD or VHS via Amazon , or watch it in Spanish on YouTube .

‘The Three Musketeers’ (1974)

Welch starred as Constance Bonacieux in this 1974 swashbuckler film. Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities. Ultimately, he finds himself in conflict with three musketeers who each challenge him to a duel.

However, when they are ambushed, they decide to join forces in opposition to the Cardinal. D’Artagnan then falls for his landlord’s wife, Welch’s Bonacieux, and they begin a torrid love affair.

You can stream “The Three Musketeers” on Amazon Prime .

Hollywood pays tribute to Raquel Welch, a legend who was ‘glamorous beyond belief’

Reese Witherspoon, Chris Meloni and Sandra Bernhard are among the many honoring Hollywood legend Raquel Welch, who died Wednesday at age 82.

‘How to Be a Latin Lover’ (2017)

In her final film, Welch portrayed widowed billionaire Celeste Birch, the target of Maximo, a rusty gigolo who’s made his career seducing wealthy older women. Maximo is shocked when his 80-year-old wife leaves him for a younger man, setting off his pursuit of Celeste.

You can stream “How to Be a Latin Lover” on Showtime , or rent it on Amazon Prime .

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Fantastic Voyage Reviews

With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period's most imaginative efforts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 23, 2023

…even if the process work is poor by today’s standards, this voyage still seems fantastic today…

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2023

The science is shaky at best but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2023

A nonstop adventure of sizable proportions.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 24, 2020

Technically, the film is only too obviously under all kinds of strain, as if trying to live up to a budget which it never wanted in the first place.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2020

Ignoring the painfully slow first third, the rest of the film is an enjoyable, basic sci-fi adventure. It won't wow you, but it will entertain you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2019

"Fantastic Voyage" is a fun adventure with some incredible sets representing the inside of the human body. What it lacks in reality is made up by beauty and skill.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2013

Not be as suspenseful as it once was, because we've seen many shots of the body's interior and we no longer have the undercurrents of the Cold War that made life itself an edge-of-the-seat affair. But it's still a fun sci-fi excursion.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 11, 2013

Despite the film being nearly 50 years old, it's still pretty impressive what they were able to accomplish using practical photography. Sure it's campy, but it's the kitschy design that makes it so much fun to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 7, 2013

That it carries the viewer along is thanks largely to its kitsch charm, its energetic pace and the stunning sets designed by Harper Goff.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2013

Half planetarium, half lava lamp

Full Review | Feb 6, 2010

Fascinating still, but suffers from lack of more sophisticated special effects. Still...imagine Raquel Welch moving around inside.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2009

The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space -- the body of a man.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2007

This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it's the screwball poetry of the plot.

...our own human interior was revealed, like a Jacques Cousteau travelogue, in screen-filling vistas of surreal canals and chambers filled with floating psychedelia and the amorphous Jell-O colors of a Jimi Hendrix concert.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2005

Well directed science fiction

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2005

All I can tell you is it is quite a trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

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Raquel Welch's 5 essential roles, from 'Fantastic Voyage' to 'One Million Years B.C.'

Only one star could pull off that cavewoman bikini.

Raquel Welch , who died Wednesday at age 82, became infamous for wearing hardly anything in a prehistoric blockbuster but  her international sex-symbol status went hand-in-hand with an interesting filmography.

The actress started in Hollywood in the mid-1960s – and even appeared with Elvis Presley in the musical "Roustabout" – for a career that lasted into the 2010s with an array of featured parts (including in the '70s roller-derby drama "Kansas City Bomber") and occasional cameos (playing herself in 1994's "Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult").

Here are Welch's five essential roles and where to watch them:

Raquel Welch: Sexy star of 'One Million Years B.C.' and 'Fantastic Voyage' dies at 82

'Fantastic Voyage' (1966)

Way before superhero movies made the most of tight leather and spandex, Welch rocked a skin-tight diving suit in this Cold War sci-fi adventure. She's part of a submarine crew that shrinks down to microscopic size and takes one heck of a trip when injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood clot in his brain and save his life after an assassination attempt.

Where to watch: HBO Max

'One Million Years B.C.' (1966)

In the fantasy adventure full of dinosaurs, cavepeople and erupting volcanoes, Welch played a fisherwoman who falls for a man (John Richardson) banished from his own tribe. She only had a few lines but that's OK: She and some prehistoric lingerie became a pop-culture hit, with the pinup poster of her adorning many a bedroom walls in the 1960s – as well as a key scene in "The Shawshank Redemption."

Where to watch: Blu-ray/DVD

'Myra Breckinridge' (1970)

Based on the Gore Vidal novel and also starring Mae West and John Huston, the controversial comedy bombed in every way but became one of Welch's best-known lead roles (and one that's probably safe from ever being remade). She stars as a transgender woman who claims part ownership of her uncle's acting school and decides to teach a class on "femdom."

Where to watch:   DVD

'The Three Musketeers' (1973)

Welch won a Golden Globe for her work in this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic by director Richard Lester ("A Hard Day's Night"). Playing Constance Bonacieux, dressmaker to the queen of Austria, the bombshell showed off her physical comedy chops in a food fight with Faye Dunaway while also being romanced by Michael York (as the swashbuckling d'Artagnan).

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

'How to Be a Latin Lover' (2017)

A highlight of her later years (and one that introduced her to a new generation of film fans), the goofy comedy featured Welch as a billionaire widow pursued by a ladies' man (Eugenio Derbez) who's made a career of seducing older woman yet desperately needs to rekindle his romantic mojo. But this Latin lover gets some competition for her affections from his best friend, another conniving gigolo (Rob Lowe).

Where to watch: Paramount+

'We've lost a true icon': Reese Witherspoon, Chris Meloni, more stars react to Raquel Welch's death

You need to watch this hugely underrated sci-fi movie before it leaves HBO Max next week

This comedic take on Fantastic Voyage absolutely holds up.

How do you make a small man bigger? Well, you could try putting a big man inside him.

What sounds on paper like a B-movie snuff film is actually one of the most entertaining sci-fi movies of the ‘80s. In 1987, the same packed year that saw the release of The Lost Boys , Full Metal Jacket , Spaceballs , Predator , Dirty Dancing , RoboCop , and (I’m serious) Ishtar , director Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg came together to deliver a high-concept comedy — one that would leave an impression far bigger than its tiny characters.

Predating modern action-comedies like Marvel’s Ant-Man and “body control” comedies like Pixar’s Ratatouille , the science-fiction spoof Innerspace is the movie you need to stream before it leaves HBO Max on August 31.

Conceptually a comedic take on the 1966 epic Fantastic Voyage , Innerspace stars Martin Short, at the time in the midst of a Hollywood hot streak. Fresh from Saturday Night Live and the 1986 hit Three Amigos , with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase, Short stars as Jack Putter, a wispy and injury-prone grocery clerk who can barely summon respect from others, let alone a date with a nice girl. Jack’s luck shifts after he’s unwittingly injected with a strange serum by a dying scientist.

Jack soon finds that it’s not a matter of what he’s injected with, but who : swaggering Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid), a playboy Air Force pilot in a top-secret shrinking experiment gone awry. With Pendleton’s oxygen depleting in his microscopic ship, and nefarious competitors out to steal the formula, the two must work together with Tuck’s ex-girlfriend, journalist Lydia (Meg Ryan), to get Pendleton out of Jack’s body and scaled back up to size.

Though hijinks abound — many shouldered by Short’s manic energy — there’s something spiritually uplifting about Innerspace . With an alpha male like Lt. Tuck “inside” the body of the more beta-like Jack, Innerspace is really a story about growth. Jack’s arc involves sticking up for himself, becoming a bigger man like the one mechanically latched onto his innards.

Innerspace , a 1987 comedy about an Air Force pilot who enters the body of a grocery clerk, is streaming on HBO Max until August 31.

In contrast, Tuck’s arc is a bit more abstract but becomes clear by the film’s end. A predecessor to Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, Tuck is overly-confident and square-jawed, but he hasn’t quite grown up. His immaturity and carelessness, following one particularly embarrassing public bender, caused Lydia to leave him. Though initially unbothered by her exit — watch him smooch a cute scientist like a sailor fresh from war — getting trapped in another man’s body with no easy way out would be enough to make anyone reevaluate their choices in life. Perhaps many of us can relate after a year of confinement thanks to quarantine.

But regardless of the film’s deeper meaning, if any exists, Innerspace is still a triumph of popcorn science-fiction 35 years after its release. It holds up! Though lacking quotable lines and profoundly laugh-out-loud hysterics, the movie goes down easy and breezy.

But as effortless as Innerspace appears, its journey behind the scenes was fraught with road bumps; its concept kept getting rewritten, and a marketing campaign failed to sell the movie to the public. In a 1987 New York Times box office analysis, Innerspace sold a “disappointing” $26 million worth of tickets against a $27 million budget.

Conceived as an intentional parody of Fantastic Voyage by writer Chip Proser, it took a rewrite by Lost Boys scribe Jeffrey Boam for the movie to find its groove. “ Innerspace was basically a rip-off of Fantastic Voyage ,” admitted Proser in a 2008 interview with Media Pundit . “My idea was that the big guy was up and moving around and could react to what was going on inside.”

Boam was not so hot on Proser’s original script. “The idea was kind of ridiculous, which was a person miniaturized and put into someone else’s body,” Boam said in a 2013 interview . “That’s all I kept from the original script. They originally thought it might be Michael J. Fox inside Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body. I actually kept turning it down, and they were persistent and kept coming back to me.”

Martin Short, Meg Ryan, and Dennis Quaid headline Innerspace , from director Joe Dante.

Dante, too, fought an uphill battle with the film. Though Innerspace is beloved today by ‘80s genre enthusiasts, Dante says it didn’t get much love until the studio released it on home video.

“People don’t really talk to me much about Innerspace ,” he said in a 2010 interview with Den of Geek . “It was discovered on video, basically. Although audiences liked it in theatres — when I went, they were in stitches — the ad campaign was so terrible for that movie. It was just a giant thumb with a little tiny pod on it. You couldn’t tell that it was a comedy — you couldn’t tell anything — and it had a terrible title because we could never figure out a better one.”

Though audiences didn’t flock to Innerspace in 1987, its legacy endures today. (And we don’t mean the existence of The Boys star Jack Quaid, son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, who met on Innerspace and subsequently married.) While Fantastic Voyage is still the touchstone for size-shifting adventures, Innerspace modernized this idea.

You don’t get quantum-centric heists like the ones in Marvel’s Ant-Man movies, nor the humor of a rat controlling a failed chef in Ratatouille, without Dennis Quaid telling Martin Short how to man up in Innerspace . It’s proof that even the little things can make a big difference.

Innerspace is streaming now on HBO Max until August 31.

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Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Genre: scifi / adventure, duration: 100 minuten, alternative titles: strange journey / microscopia, country: united states, directed by: richard fleischer, stars: stephen boyd , raquel welch and edmond o'brien, imdb score: 6,8  (20.750), releasedate: 24 august 1966.

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Fantastic Voyage plot

"A Fantastic and Spectacular Voyage... Through the Human Body... Into the Brain." Scientist Benes, who has important information for America, is taken to the CMDF after an attack in which he ends up in a coma. This body masters the technique of reducing objects and people to microscopic size. When it turns out that the only way to save Benes is to remove a blood clot in the brain from the inside, a team is assembled to fight the clot. They will be given a modern nuclear submarine, which will be reduced in size together with the team, after which it will be injected into Benes.

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Dit is een erg sterk staaltje science-fiction. Fantastic Voyage weet heel goed een sfeer neer te zetten en heeft vrij weinig moeite met het opbouwen van spanning. Ik kan me weinig keren herrineren dat ik zo oprecht in spanning heb gezeten om wat er zou komen. Vooral leuk aan deze film is het gegeven van een reis door het menselijk lichaam. Ondanks dat we met een kleine wereld te maken hebben voelt het toch als een gaaf en groot avontuur aan. Zeer geslaagde film die de tand des tijds goed heeft doorstaan.

This is a very strong piece of science fiction. Fantastic Voyage knows how to create an atmosphere very well and has very little trouble building tension. I can't remember many times when I was so genuinely anxious about what was to come. Especially nice about this film is the fact that it takes a journey through the human body. Despite the fact that we are dealing with a small world, it still feels like a cool and big adventure. A very successful film that has stood the test of time well.

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Fantastic Voyage was op zich wel een charmante jaren '60 scifi, maar alles bij elkaar toch een lichte tegenvaller. Het is weer eens wat anders dan de ruimte; zoals een van de karakters op een gegeven moment opmerkt, ze gaan naar 'inner space', oftewel geminiaturiseerd het menselijk lichaam in. Dat is een leuk gegeven waar een verder vrij dertien-in-een-dozijn verhaaltje aan opgehangen wordt met een 'spannende' missie, onverwachte tegenslagen, een saboteur aan boord en een vrouwelijke expeditiedeelneemster van wie we voornamelijk haar decollete zien. De medische expeditie brengt de crew op een zwerftocht, waarin we allerlei delen van het lichaam van binnen te zien krijgen met elk weer haar eigen uitdagingen. Maar uiteindelijk klinkt het toch leuker dan het werkelijk is. De verschillende lichaamssystemen en hun gevaren zijn best leuk gedaan en zijn zeker voer voor een fascinerende tocht door de mens, dat is waar. Maar het verhaal blijft toch wel erg standaard, met verder houterige acteurs die geforceerde teksten opdreunen, en soms charmante maar vaak ook erg knullige special effects. Best vermakelijke cult hoor en dit soort scifi heeft z'n charme, en ik neigde zo af en toe ook nog wel naar de 3.5*, maar daar verveelde het uiteindelijk toch te vaak wat te veel voor.

Fantastic Voyage was in itself a charming '60s sci-fi, but all in all a minor setback. It's something different than space; as one of the characters points out at one point, they go into 'inner space', i.e. miniaturized into the human body. That's a nice fact that builds an otherwise pretty dime-a-dozen story with an 'exciting' mission, unexpected setbacks, a saboteur on board and a female expedition participant whose main character is her. see cleavage. The medical expedition takes the crew on a ramble, in which we get to see all kinds of parts of the body inside, each with its own challenges. But in the end it sounds nicer than it really is. The different body systems and their dangers are quite nicely done and are certainly fodder for a fascinating journey through the human being, that's true. But the story remains very standard, with otherwise wooden actors chanting forced texts, and sometimes charming but often also very clumsy special effects. Pretty entertaining cult, and this kind of sci-fi has its charm, and I also gravitated to the 3.5* every now and then, but in the end it was too often too much for that.

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Deze blijft toch erg fijn, al wordt het natuurlijk pas echt spannend als ze het lichaam ingaan. En dat zit met lavalamp-blobs, kleurtjes, lichtjes en een hoop vitrage. Maar wat een briljant idee voor een film, in de jaren 80 ooit nog eens gedaan als Innerspace maar toen moest er humor bij. Donald Pleasence en Raquel Welch ... sixties dream movie stuff. FX zijn soms doorzichtig, maar wat een creativiteit, die scène met die lasers, onvergetelijk ... klassiek.

This one remains very nice, although of course it only gets really exciting when they enter the body. And that's with lava lamp blobs, colors, lights and a lot of net curtains. But what a brilliant idea for a movie, once done in the 80s as Innerspace but then humor had to be added. Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch...sixties dream movie stuff. FX are sometimes transparent, but what a creativity, that scene with those lasers, unforgettable ... classic.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) took the world on a mind bending trip to outer space, but Fantastic Voyage (1966) is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure.

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. But there’s a deadline: they have only sixty minutes to reach the brain, remove the clot, and leave the patient. After that, the effect wears off and they return to full size.

Stephen Boyd stars as a colorless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. While they literally fight the immune system of their patient while navigating the circulatory system, the mission is complicated by Cold War tensions, double agents, and defecting scientists

The science is shaky at best but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. Director Richard Fleischer, who turned Disney’s 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cloak and dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (like how do miniaturized humans breath full sized air molecules?) seem moot.

Edmond O’Brien plays the general presiding over the mission, Arthur Kennedy is the medical doctor on board, and William Redfielt and Arthur O’Connell costar.

It won Oscars for visual effects and art direction.

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The story of miniaturized medicos set adrift inside the body of an ailing Russian scientist, Richard Fleischer’s preposterously entertaining film has something for everybody, including enormous balloon-shaped sets and the balloon-shaped Raquel Welch in form-fitting scuba gear. Starring old guard Edmond O’Brien and chiseled ladies’ man Stephen Boyd, this high-tech Saturday matinee garnered unusually good reviews and plenty of action at the box office.

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