I like the song.
Posted on 06/17/2023 7:22:21 AM PDT by V K Lee
Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch
star in this imaginative sci-fi adventure.
When a scientist who holds
the secret of miniaturization goes comatose,
a team of specialists travels inside his body
to try to repair a dangerous blood clot.
But with his body's defenses fighting them,
and a saboteur on the team,
it's a race against time to operate
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Humans are built right down to the molecular level, and you can’t shrink a molecule. Sorry to be a Debby Downer but I think this movie isn’t real.
Why would you want to shrink Raquel Welch, anyway?
I like the song.
Yeah I know.
Classic movie!
I saw it at the base theater in Yokosuka, Japan (the Benny Decker Theater) probably back in 1967.
When those guys all started pulling the antibodies off of Raquel Welch, my clothes started feeling kind of tight!
There was a funny story I heard about that scene.
Apparently, when the time came to shoot that scene, the director said "ACTION!" and the guys all began pulling the antibodies off of her. after a few seconds, he yelled "CUT!"
All the guys looked up in surprise and when one of them asked what was wrong, he pointed at Raquel who had all the antibodies removed from everywhere except on her boobs and her crotch. The director, pointing at her said "She looks like a damn burlesque dancer there!" Nobody had wanted to be, er..."ungentlemanly", so they all avoided those parts.
When they shot it again, they all went straight for her boobs and crotch at the same time as the director yelled "CUT! CUT!" Then he said to one guy "You remove them from here!" as he pointed to each of them and assigned an area for them to remove antibodies from!
That was a fun movie to watch as a kid.
Very memorable.
Don’t worry...she’ll still float.
It’s actually a pretty good movie from a medical standpoint. A person could learn about their body from watching this.
My voice changed watching Rachel in that movie when it came out
Great movie with hot Raquel Welch, the most beautiful woman of all time, in it!
It fit in great with Godzilla vs. Mothra and the Batman /Robin movies of the late 60s.
I just found this item on silverscenesblog:
"Dale Hennesy and Jack Martin Smith were responsible for the art direction of Fantastic Voyage while Stuart A. Reiss and Walter M. Scott handled set decor. Hennesy was also the production designer for Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ) and King Kong ( 1976 )."It's weird -- "Young Frankenstein" seems so much newer than "Fantastic Voyage." There are some good set photographs at the site, too. Also another great photograph of Ms. Welch "taking a breather." (LOL)
It was a very imaginative Sci fi. Kudos to the writer who created it
This and The Andromeda Strain are the most memorable sci-fi movies from my youth.
One of my earliest memories was seeing this movie at the theater, age 5 or 6. My pal Gus threw up. Freaked me out, too
Of course it’s not real. It’s called science fiction for a reason. Who knows how this premise may have impacted the current miniaturization of medical devices, just as Star Trek’s medical instruments/machines have been inspiring real ones.
Jerome Bixby. Also wrote The Fly.
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