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Stam Fine Reviews looks at the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a film where a sub and its crew are shrunken to a minuscule size and injected into a human body. Happens more often than you’d think.
Stars Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence. Directed by Richard Fleischer.
We miss Clive James but to soften the blow we have Stam Fine. A perfect blend of information and wit. Thank you.
But who could be Peter Cook to his Clive?
I seem to remember Inner Space quite fondly. And I'm guessing, given the rizz of the cast, it might have aged fairly well, too.
just rewatched both Fantastic Voyage and Inner Space , and yes it still holds up
Inner Space is a buddy movie witb the shrinking tech as the plot motivator. Buddy movies rely on the chemistry and Quaid and Short played well off each other despite not actually being on screen together until the end. Quaid, especially, had to let his personality shine since he was acting alone and pretty much flipping switches and pressing buttons
Innerspace is awesome. Meg Ryan’s cuteness, Quaid’s snark, and Short’s rubber face.
Dang, that poor guy's hospital bill must have been astronomical.
This is one of my childhood favourites, because, before Star Wars, all we had was this and Logan's Run.
Really?!
Planet of the Apes. (times 3)
2001 - A Space Odyssey.
The Omega Man.
Forbidden Planet.
Barbarella.
The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Thunderbirds.
UFO.
The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The Time Machine.
Dark Star.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
Marooned.
A Clockwork Orange.
THX 1138.
Silent Running.
Westworld.
Rollerball.
To name but a few.
Also Logan's Run (a very poor film which I saw in the cinema in 76/77 and thought of as dumbed down for children) was released 7 months before Star-Wars so "before" is barely true.
@@Lensman864 here's some more mostly British Sci Fi movies worth a look
Quatermass and the Pit
Quatermass 2
The Day of The Triffards
the Day the Earth Caught Fire
Lifeforce
Outland
Saturn 3
Warlords of Atlantis
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
and of course maybe the most 70's Sci Fi movie
Zardoz
p.s
Logans Run is a great film
And Star Trek reruns.
Great list, though my opinion of "Logan's Run" is gigahertz than yours. I mean, "It's got the Agutter in it." Bonus points if you get that reference, Stam would, though he hates it.
@@HuntingCatIsBack after logans run agutter became a nurse and fell in love with a Werewolf, you can't go wrong with her i say
Thanks, one plot point: they never get the proteus wreckage out, but it doesn't grow and kill the patient. The book corrected it by having them remove it. ❤
also Donald Pleasence's body, and all the water in the syringe.
Screenwriter: So, they can shrink people in a sub and then ... Producer: wait, that sounds impossible, why would they do that ? Screenwriter: so the movie can happen
Pitch Meeting References are TIGHT!
How do their cells cope with being smaller than the molecule sizes of water?
Hey shuddup. Super-easy, barely an inconvenience
Wow, wow, wow, wow. Wow.
It's a classic movie. Let's just leave it at that
@@Hoots_Maguire Oh, really?
Great Movie & Fun commentary by SF
When Asimov read the script so he could begin work on the novelization, he immediately pointed out that while the crew escaped at the end, the submarine debris was still inside the patient's head, and would expand there and explode the patient's skull. Studio execs replied "But the sub was destroyed!" After a few rounds of this, Asimov gave up on getting the script changed. He came up with a sort-of-plausible way to get the sub debris out in his novelization.
And wrote a longer sequel. Voyage to the brain.
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I have a soft spot for the animated series of Fantastic Voyage and I can still remember the theme tune: "C...M....D...F..! Combined Miniature Defence Force! Time Limit....12 HOURS!"
Busby Birdwell... BUILDER OF THE VOYAGER!
For a very long time I wasn't aware how much involved in science-fiction Donald Pleasance was. This, THX1138, Escape From New York... For the longest time I perceived him as this high-class act from that snobby episode of Columbo, only to discover that he was in a lot of schlock! Now I admire him even more.
Donald Pleacanse served in WW2 and was a POW in German prison... and starred in THE GREAT ESCAPE
Check out Wake in Fright. It's very arty and high class.
Schlock??! Why you!
Love this movie ❤
I had no idea this movie featured Edmond O'Brien. He was one of the great character actors and my favorite role of his was as a tv writer in the Rod Serling scripted teleplay, The Comedian.
Funny thing is that Edmond started his career as a romantic lead Gringoire in 1939 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but ended as a rugged character actor. Great actor and everyone should see him in the original 1950 version of D.O.A.
@@mikavirtanen7029 I am glad he ended up as a character actor. Aside from The Comedian, I loved him Seven Days in May, DOA, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Shield for Murder.
Well that's answered a question I've had for 30 odd years. I asked around for the name of the movie I saw when I was very young about people shrunk down to go inside someone else, and all I've ever got was Inner Space. A good movie, but it never scratched the itch of recognition so I've never thought it was the same movie. This is the one I was looking for. Neat. Nightmare fuel, but neat.
Same! I’d seen a few snippets of this on TV one afternoon, but everyone only talked about Inner Space. Which is a great movie but is very much its own thing. And is arguably more about the romance than the journey…
What, no bullshit restocking fee??
Rest in peace, Raquel.
Rest in peace ALL of them!
I live across the street from the guy they went inside...he seems fine now.
Irwin Allen raided this film like a Viking, using props, music, and more for his late 60s shows. I always thought this film was his. Ha.
Missed your chance Stan. You should have released this on Sunday afternoon.
This was a really good movie. Fantastic imagination.
Great idea for a movie.... Terrible idea if you're a proctologist.😊
I do love this even though I like Inner Space more due to its humour and SFX
HHGTTG^?
^Hey, how good to treatise Guide
suggestion for review , 2 short lived 80s cyberpunk Sci-Fi shows
- MAX HEADROOM
- Captain Power and the soldiers of the Future
Didn’t Asimov have an input on this movie? I remember a quote from him to wit ‘Fantastic Voyage - starring Raquel Welch and 100,000 red corpuscles’
Classic...used to watch it on both weekdays and Saturday afternoons whenever it was run... luved it!
I don't have to watch the film now. Looked a bit shit anyway. I think Stam should do 'The Keep', 'Paperhouse,' 'Lair of the white worm,' and 'Murder by Death'
Fun movie, but... There is a fatal flaw in the plot, and I'm not talking about miniaturizing things. During the course of the mission, there are many miniaturized things that get left behind in the body (remember, things only stay small for 60 minutes). During the shrinking process, the partially miniaturized sub is placed in a tube of about 100 gallons of water, which is then miniaturized and injected in the body. On the mission all the miniaturized air in the subs tanks escapes into the body. In the brain, they leave behind a nuclear submarine, a laser, and a crew member. In the end, the only miniaturized material that comes out of the body, prior to the 60 minute deadline, is four of the crew members. What should happen at 60 minutes is very gross explosion. It's amazing that the many people involved with this production ignored this obvious plot hole. And, even more amazing, few viewers I have spoken to notice this. Come on American education system...teach our kids critical thinking. Just sayin'.
This is such a fun movie. The premise is so goofy, but they seemed to have just said, "if we're gonna do this, let's just bloody go for it." The visuals are great, and it's very memorable.
And Raquel Welch.
Innerspace may not be a direct remake, but it does duplicate many of the plot devices of the original, so could be considered a remake in spirit, or if nothing else a spiritual successor.
I often wondered that if they had to exit the body in a certain time before returning to their original size didn't the same apply to the dead Donald or the sub craft still inserted inside the body? Doesn't bear thinking about really.
Enjoyed the film, managed get copy on dvd, as like special effects, and story, despite negative on about film
This movie is the cause of a lot of people beginning to study anatomy
3:56😂😂😂.
Apart from the Haloween movies, the only marginally good Donald Pleasance's character I can think of is one of the conspirators in "Night of the Generals", where he... betrays?... the Nazis..
Edit: OK, loved him as a good guy in "The Great Escape"😊.
You need to see the Australian movie "Wake in Fright". I have already dared Stam Fine to cover it, but I expect it is a bit niche...
Well, he was Dr. Jack Seward in 1979 version of Dracula, so that's another one. The most chilling performance of Donald for me was in The Eagle Has Landed, where he portrays Heinrich Himmler with very effective restrained malevolence . Awesome actor he was.
I found it funny that when you see the opening credits of this film you hear almost every sound effect from Lost in Space.
Or, the Time Tunnel, or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or Land of the Giants, or...
I think I saw the Dr Who episode before this movie :)
Well, y'know. It wasn't exactly Innerspace. Or EPCOT's Body Wars. Or even that episode of Transformers where they shrunk down to stop Megatron from the inside out. Pfft. How dare they copy and paste those plots twenty years before those plots even existed. :P
Loved this film as a kid, and when I went to see Inner Space in the cinema, i recognised many bits.
Cold water will do that to you, 'landing gear up!' Fantastic Voyage is a classic. Up there with Forbidden Planet and War of the Worlds.
I grew up watching Sunday matinees of this movie too! Loved it every time. Very influential, of course, but I think my all time favorite parody is the Rick and Morty season 1 episode "Anatomy Park." Hilarious.
Ah sweet! Fantastic Voyage is on, my favourite bit is where they rearrange his face so they can meet "The Cowboy" and all he can say is "Twoooo weeks"
It would be so meta if the Cowboy said, "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
The big problem, the biggest problem, with this movie is that Donald Pleasence, the Proteus, and all of the water that had been in the originally gigantic syringe before it was shrunk down were all left inside Benes's body. The fact that the ship and the traitor had both been "eaten" by the antibodies does not matter. Their molecules, and all those thousands of gallons of water, would still have returned to their original size and mass, tearing Benes to a bloody pulp from the inside out. Even if the mission had gone perfectly, the water would have done the job. I enjoy the movie very much, but this plot hole has bugged me ever since I first saw it at the age of ten.
You are correct-as l recall,in the novelization of the movie,this problem was solved by the CIA agent enticing the white blood cell devouring the Proteus to follow the surviving crew members back out through one of Benes’s tear ducts.
Come on, you’ve got to do Innerspace next…….
Now I really want to play Microsurgeon again
Innerspace is one of the most underrated movies of the 80's. Joe Dante is like Steven Spielberg in a fun house mirror and Dennis Quaid is sort of a Dollar Tree version of Harrison Ford. Add in Martin Short and peak Meg Ryan hotness and it's one of those forgotten 80's movies that people need to revisit after they've watched Back to the Future and Ghostbusters a hundred times each.
I remember watching it again when I was older and was surprised to see the 'adult' attachment the guy with the missing hand uses.
It's funny when I do watch this film it's on a Sunday afternoon
This movie was made before I was born. I first saw it as a child. It is still one of my favorites.
Monty Python: "I'd tax Raquel Welch. And I have a feeling she'd tax me."
Not related but not unrelated.
Pity they didn’t follow it up with the sequel “Destination: Brain”
I saw it in the theater with my dad.
Enjoyed that 😊
Aw. You're lucky. The only thing they played on TV on Sunday afternoons when I was a kid were episodes of Grizzly Adams. I think this movie pairs well with "The Andromeda Strain" which also had lots of impressive visual effects.
There was suppose to be a remake.
Got to do Innerspace next.
I didn't know this was an Asimov story. But it figures - great concept film, every character actor in Hollywood at the time doing their thing on full throttle, but it's just kind of boring
It isn't - he wrote the novelisation of the movie, he didn't come up with the idea. He did write "Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain", a sort of sequel, which corrects (or at least explains away) some of the more egregious scientific errors.
Saw this in the theater. Love it!
Now do Inner Space.
Yup, (just like Ernest Borgnine in "Ice Station Zebra,") it's a bit too obvious that Pleasance is the saboteur. Memorable death by antibodies, though.
In the Asimov novelization, when the hero is delivered into CMDF's facilities, he wonders what CMDF stands for. He has a couple of guesses. The first is "Consolidated Martian Dimwits and Fools" while the second is better, but apparently unprintable.
I can't look at any scene of this movie with the CMDF symbol in it without thinking of the first guess.
For some reason Donald Pleasance scared me.
Could be. He quite often portrayed creepy, corrupt, cowardly characters, sometimes even borderline sociopaths (ie the teacher in No News From The Western Front or Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed).
@@JZsBFF that sure explains it. And I never saw any of those you mentioned.
As a kid I loved this movie!
My older brother, who later became a doctor, would explain everything to me (he was a brainiac).
…and then even at a young age I realized- I like girls!
They just never liked me back🤣
let's face it. Asimov's book was great.. this did a good go on that. Big names, when Hollywood wasn't dead.
Fun.
And yes I may have seen this film right through my childhood, (I was born in 1966) I've now reached a very sentimental point in my life, I've watched your very well paced condensed version I'd love to watch it once again (the full version that is as all I've got to do is. 'touch my personal communicator' in order to watch your video,)
In my pre-teen years, the scene where Raquel Welch is pinned against the inner hull of the Proteus was a transformative event. It awakened new feelings.
Naughty... but very nice.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Correct!
Aaaahhh, yes. The movie where Raquel Welch is eaten by antibodies. That's all any 12 year old boy needs to know.
If I had a dollar for every piece of media that did a “shrinking into someone’s body” premise based off this movie, I could afford to build my own shrinking submarine lol
I thought this was the review for Innerspace. Give me a heads-up in 21 years.
Oh my!!! you're channel has reminded me that despite 2 kids, never getting the chance to watch the telly anymore and a complete lack of interest in recent scifi at my heart I am still a scifi girlie. Weekend matinee on BBC2 or Channel 4 formed my interests. 😊
Never understood why they needed wetsuits - the 'liquid' they are swimming in is at body temperature
I want to see the Cronenberg version.
What movie is that?
Stam Fine is becoming one of my favourite TH-cam channels. 👍
Stam, most of the time, you are great. This one, you are absolutely outstanding!
Even as a boy it always bothered me that the miniaturized people had to get out of the guy's body before they grew back to normal size but the submarine, they travelled in was left inside of him. Just a line or two of dialog would have resolved this problem.
"You left WHAT INSIDE...*Explodes* 🤣
i seem to remember that because the sub was breached, the antibodies dissolved it before it could enlarge
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Come along and ride on a Fantastic Voyage Slide, slide slippity slide. I do what I do just to survive (sorry it just popped into my head for some reason)
Fantastic Voyage is one of the best sci fi films ever done. Far better than a lot of today's too CGI dependent films. Watched in tandem with reading Dr. Isaac Asimov's novelization, its a better film than its critics think.
This was adapted into a Filmation animated series in 1968.
Raquel Welch looked spectacular sporting that white wetsuit.
All the crap that gets remakes when this is crying out.
Inner Space is mentioned in this movie as well as this video.
Such a fun movie with a cool premise and cast!
Futurama's take on this with the space worms is hilarious
Raquel Welch as Cora Peterson Indeed Fantastic.👍👏
The wetsuit should have won the Emmy for best supporting......
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@@protogenxl👍🏽
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Raquel looked good with short hair
A lot of the miniatures of the inside of the body ended up getting re-used as props and set decoration in the 2nd and 3rd seasons of Lost in Space. Need something weird and off-putting to sit in the alien lair? How about that chunk of the ear canal? Or we’ve got some of the lung wall if you want it….
A lot of the sound effects were also from the 20th Century Fox audio library as well, so those were already familiar to viewers of Fox’s Irwin Allen shows.
What a movie! Clever, exciting, and a brunette Raquel Welch. The effects were impressive....not quite as impressive as Raquel in a wetsuit, but pretty damn impressive.
Fantastic 7 Days
I remember there was a cartoon version of that
Yep. The opening credits were narrated by Ted Knight (AKA Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore).
I remember that movie fondly.
And: Es war einmal das Leben bzw. Il était une foi la Vie? ;)
I like the remake innerspace
Star Trek TNG did shrink a shuttle with LaForge and Ro on board.
I remember an episode of DS9 with a shrunken shuttle but not one of TNG.
Sounds like you're mashing up TNG's The Next Phase and DS9's One Little Ship.
In The Next Phase Geordie and Ro appear to be dead in a transporter accident, but they're actually out of phase with the ship and go around walking through walls and stuff.
One Little Ship has a runabout with Dax, O'Brien and Bashir aboard shrunk down for some research, which gets disrupted by an attack, leaving them still tiny, and flying around inside the Defiant. It doesn't involve going inside anyone's body, but there are definitely echoes of Fantastic Voyage there.
@@JesmondBeeBee Oops, I conflated two episodes from two different shows
“Slide slide, Slippity-Slide!”(RIP, Coolio!)
Shrinking them down… as you do.
"...this scene took six weeks to film."
Suspension of disbelief *_(wink)_*
The miniaturization process doesn't work that well on breast tissue, apparently.
Don't tell my wife i laughed at that 😅
Suspension of disbelief has its benefits.
Also: things tend to look larger under water.
No this is a movie that deserves a remake.
Wasn't it, though? I remember a movie called 'InnerSpace,' starring Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, and Meg Ryan.
tee hee heeeeeee.....
I just wish you would have clarified defected scientist from the USSR to the USA instead of just saying a defected scientist. I had to rewind and figure out who the dude was that was being saved.
This wasn't funny yet it was entertaining.
Now you are talking! One of my Top 20 Sci-Fi Movies ever made. Played deadly seriously unlike that REVOLTING 80s remake - Inner Space - which made a big joke about it. PS Fantastic Voyage has a brilliant musical score!
Inner space isn't a remake. It's a comic homage to this film and it was a lot of fun. Do you really think that science fiction can't be lampooned?
Close enough to a remake for me.
Why is it that Donald Pleasence is in all these "B" classics?