- Actors: Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence, Stephen Boyd, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell
- Directors: Richard Fleischer
- Producers: Fantastic Voyage (1966) ( Strange Journey ) ( Microscopia ), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Strange Journey, Microscopia
- Format: PAL
- Subtitles: English, Swedish, Danish
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: U
- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 9 May 2005
- Run Time: 96.00 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0007RUSJ4
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 39,939 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Fantastic Voyage 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 centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who had previously 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 cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker
Product Description
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Czech ( Subtitles ), Danish ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Hebrew ( Subtitles ), Hungarian ( Subtitles ), Icelandic ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Polish ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, 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. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Oscar Academy Awards, ...Fantastic Voyage (1966) ( Strange Journey ) ( Microscopia )
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a movie that has played tricks in my memory over the years. I first saw this when I was a child, and for some reason recall a much more exciting journey with lots more happenings, including a much longer passing through a beating heart - which doesn't actually happen at all, and so I guess the memory really does play some giant tricks with the passage of time!
I guess many young people may be very critical of this film, since nowadays there are so many much more advanced and sophisticated special effects. However, for its day, this was quite brilliant!
A group of Experts climb into a submarine and are 'miniaturised' and sent on a mission inside a human body to repair some damage to the patient's brain - a fantastic voyage indeed! Of course the team meet with all kinds of 'natural' perils that are within the human body along the way.
There are some 'silent' points in this movie pretty early on which have impact.
Stars Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch.
This has been re-mastered to a very high degree.
I guess many young people may be very critical of this film, since nowadays there are so many much more advanced and sophisticated special effects. However, for its day, this was quite brilliant!
A group of Experts climb into a submarine and are 'miniaturised' and sent on a mission inside a human body to repair some damage to the patient's brain - a fantastic voyage indeed! Of course the team meet with all kinds of 'natural' perils that are within the human body along the way.
There are some 'silent' points in this movie pretty early on which have impact.
Stars Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch.
This has been re-mastered to a very high degree.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Just watched this movie again for the first time in thirty years, haven't seen it since it was a favorite sunday afternoon flick when I was about ten and unbelievably, IT STILL ROCKS!
I have read some reviews about the cheesy effects but then there's something great about a movie where your imagination is required to fill in the gaps. I haven't seen a movie in years that left me on tender hooks from start to finish like this. Truly magnificent sci-fi classic.
To see this movie in restored 235.1 widescreen is a sheer joy and the two channel stereo track works perfectly on a surround system, it's the closest you will get to seeing the origional cinema release. The movie score is intense and what more can you say for a movie that has Raquel Welsh in a skin tight 'white' wet suit.
Bliss!
I have read some reviews about the cheesy effects but then there's something great about a movie where your imagination is required to fill in the gaps. I haven't seen a movie in years that left me on tender hooks from start to finish like this. Truly magnificent sci-fi classic.
To see this movie in restored 235.1 widescreen is a sheer joy and the two channel stereo track works perfectly on a surround system, it's the closest you will get to seeing the origional cinema release. The movie score is intense and what more can you say for a movie that has Raquel Welsh in a skin tight 'white' wet suit.
Bliss!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Fantastic indeed when it first hit the cinema screen in the early 70's, science fact has caught up with Science Fiction.
The idea that a machine of atomic size can be intoduced into the blood stream to target a specific site in the body has arrived with the, "magic bullet," therapies now under development. Even though the notion of mechanical and human minaturisation remains fantasy one has to wonder for how long this will be the case.
The value of the film today, however, lies not in the realm of passive audience watching, but in its (the film's) use as an interactive tool in the teaching of basic human biology. Especially for students who have difficulty in visualising the abstract three dimensional world, watching and discussing the film can provide the means of achieving a mind broadening leap in students' understanding of the mechanisms that define the function of the internal 3D world
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great
It,s lovely to see this again ,I watched this when I was a kid on the tele,not long after we got a colour set.As good to see again now as it was 35 odd years ago.
Published 11 months ago by A. M. Bennett
Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces
A medical and science crew board a submarine and are miniaturised and injected into an important foreign scientist body. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Spike Owen
pretty good scifi, 60s adventure style
This was one of the first "hard scifi" films I ever saw. Seeing it now, there are some pretty glaring gaps in credibility, like what happened to the remnants of the dissolved ship... Read more
Published 12 months ago by rob crawford
Me Rambling as Usual
Had the chance last night watch the classic sci-fi that is Fantastic Voyage. (Made in the same year as England won the World Cup, which sadly means it's quite an old film. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2009 by Cactus
wonderfully awful
This film is so absurd (but oddly touchingly so)that you are unlikely to go more than a minute without finding something to shriek with laughter at. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2009 by Cjob
Inner Space
This was a film I had always liked and was pleased to finally find it on DVD. The story has a strong Cold War theme - a Russian scientist with secrets defects to the US and is... Read more
Published on 11 July 2009 by Mr. Andrew Carr
Super nostalgic movie!
This is a movie that has played tricks in my memory over the years. I first saw this when I was a child, and for some reason recall a much more exciting journey with lots more... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2008 by FAMOUS NAME
Child-hood memories!
Funny! I seem to remember wetting the bed after watching this! Mind you i was only 5 at the time! Does`nt seem as scary now! Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2006 by S. Taylor
psychedelic inner space thriller ....
one of the best movies from the sixties,the storyline keeps you gripped and the special effects are a wow baby!!
Published on 10 Jun 2005 by mary
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