Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmund O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur Kennedy, William Redfield, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon

Director: Irwin Allen

Summary: Features 'Fantastic Voyage' - a tale in which a group of scientists take a trip through the human body and 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' in which a giant atomic-powered submarine is undergoing final trials below the ice at the North Pole. The Admiral is informed that the ring of radiation surrounding the earth has been set on fire and is burning wildly. Unless the fire burns out or is extinguished, the temperature will rise and cremate the earth and its inhabitants.

Includes two films on one disc. In VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA an exploratory expedition to the north pole becomes urgent when the Earth's radiation belts begin to heat the planet to unbearable temperatures, and only Admiral Nelson (Pidgeon) and his crew can save the world. In FANTASTIC VOYAGE a group of scientists are shrunk to microscopic size in order to repair a deadly blood clot in the brain of a brilliant scientist. A pair of rousing science fiction adventures from the 1960s with colorful special effects.

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Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Seaupdates 20,000 Leagues Under the Seaas the world's most advanced experimental submarine manoeuvres under the North Pole while the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaviewsub and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most form-fitting naval uniform you've ever seen; fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank; gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon; and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work.

Fantastic Voyageis 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 centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: 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 had previously turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Seainto 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 miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1961
Release Date:	June 2, 2003
Runtime:	196 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	23107 D V D
Keywords:	Sea, Off, Voyage, General, Fantastic, Wide, Screen, Fiction, Science, Bottom, Horror, Schedule, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction