Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1966-08-24

Country

United States

Production

20th Century Fox

Genre

Adventure, Science Fiction

Budget

$5 115 000

Revenue

$12 000 000

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Director

Richard Fleischer

Actors

Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Del Val, Barry Coe, Ken Scott
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Saul David

Operator

Ernest Laszlo

Composer

Leonard Rosenman

Artist

Audition

Editing

William B. Murphy
All team (27)

• When filming the scene where the main characters peel antibodies off Raquel Welch's heroine, director Richard Fleischer (1916-2006) ordered the actors to peel off all the "antibodies" they could find. Being gentlemen, they began to avoid the "antibodies" located on the actress’s chest. Fleischer noticed this and told the actors to shoot another take, and this time all the actors eagerly reached for the actress’s chest. Eventually, Fleischer realized that the scene would have to be carefully rehearsed and planned, with each actor peeling off specific things from the actress at a specific moment and in a specific order. This take, with the actors' movements rehearsed in advance, made it into the film.
• The scenes where the characters are extracted from the submarine and swim were filmed in pavilions where the actors were suspended on cables. To create the impression for the viewer that they are watching the characters swim, overcoming environmental resistance, these scenes were filmed at an increased speed and then reproduced at a normal rate.
• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was asked to write a novel based on the screenplay. The writer read the screenplay and stated that it had too many “plot holes.” After receiving permission to write the novel as he saw fit, he got to work, and considering the delays in filming and the speed at which Asimov worked, the novel was published even before the film.