Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition) |  | Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  48 reviews
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2244043
UPC: 024543440437
EAN: 0024543440437
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1966
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in B |
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Product Description
After an attempted assassination of a diplomat, a submarine and its crew of scientists and doctors is shrunk to microscopic size and injected in to the diplomat's bloodstream to save his life.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
2001: A Space Odyssey took the world on a mind-bending trip to outer space, but 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 center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. 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 Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. 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. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. 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 cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturized humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker
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 Excellent Old Science Fiction November 20, 2009
Brice L. Korte (Summerdale, Al.)
Back when this came out, it was considered a 'really cool' movie. With movies computerized these days, I can't help but wonder what they will be like ten (10) years from now!!
One of my most favorite movies October 12, 2009
V. Ludkowski (tree city, IL USA)
I love this movie. So glad that I was able to buy it here. Thanks!
Fantastic Voyage May 11, 2009
William J. Hayes III (Delafield, WI USA)
"Fantastic Voyage" is a prime example of exceptional science-fiction, way ahead of its time in technology and deserving of its 2 Academy Awards and 5 nominations. It takes the "what if" game and "unexplored territory" idea to new depths - within the human body. It uses life-and-death tension to give us a first-class biology lesson. We now actually have nano technology and mini-robots! The movie DVD recaptures the theater experience, and gives us a chance to see Raquel Welch actually act. The special features are an unexpected plus. I saw the film in a theater decades ago, and was just as stunned to see the DVD version.
Fanatstic Voyage May 3, 2009
James H. Otterholt
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Had a problem with the orginal copy, but as always AMAZON replaced the video. I am very happy with the video and of course, with AMAZON.
Love old movies! March 10, 2009
K. Tainter
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love old movies, especially older, well-done sci-fi; and this movie definitely fits that category.
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