FANTASTIC VOYAGE

(1966 Science Fiction)

Even though the audience saw us in the miniaturized sub in the human body,
we were actually suspended on flying ballet wires that held us up over the stages at
20th Century Fox. What began as a company joke about not drinking too much tea
in the morning turned out to be alarmingly true. Once they got you up there, they would
not let you down for anything--not even to go to the loo.

---Donald Pleasence

ALTERNATE TITLES:

MICROSCOPIA
STRANGE JOURNEY
VIAGGIO ALLUCINANTE (Italian title)

CAST AND CREW:

STEPHEN BOYD (Grant)
RAQUEL WELCH (Cora Peterson)
EDMOND O'BRIEN (General Alan Carter)
DONALD PLEASENCE (Dr. Michaels)
ARTHUR O'CONNELL (Colonel Donald Reid)
ARTHUR KENNEDY (Dr. Peter Duval)
WILLIAM REDFIELD (Captain Bill Owens)
JEAN DEL VAL (Jan Benes)
BARRY COE (Communications Aide)
JAMES BROLIN (Technician)

Directed by RICHARD FLEISCHER
Written by HARRY KLEINER
(Based on a story by OTTO KLEMENT and JAY LEWIS BIXBY)
Produced by SAUL DAVID

SYNOPSIS:

A medical team is shrunken down to microscopic size and transplanted into the body of an important scientist, so they can remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain.

PLEASENCE'S CHARACTER:

Pleasence plays Dr. Michaels---the head of the medical team.

PORTRAITS AND STILLS:

DONALD PLEASENCE AS DR. MICHAELS

PLEASENCE KNOCKS WILLIAM REDFIELD UNCONSCIOUS

THE PROTEUS AND ITS CREW
Photos courtesy of Tim Murphy

STEPHEN BOYD, RAQUEL WELCH, ARTHUR KENNEDY, REDFIELD, AND PLEASENCE

PLEASENCE BEGINS TO BECOME CONCERNED

PLEASENCE GETS INTO A STICKY SITUATION
Photo courtesy of Tim Murphy and John Ellis

SCREEN CAPTURES:

BOYD AND KENNEDY TRY TO CALM PLEASENCE

BOYD AND PLEASENCE

PLEASENCE, BOYD, AND WELCH
Images captured by Christopher Weedman

REVIEWS:

BOSLEY CROWTHER (The New York Times)

BRENDAN GILL (The New Yorker)

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