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Year: 1966 Production: 20th Century-Fox Director: Richard Fleischer Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmund O'brien, Donald Pleasence Screenwriter: Harry Kleiner Based on a story by Otto Clement and J.Lewis (i.e., Jerome) Bixby. Novelization (1966) by Issac Asimov 100 minutes; Color
A submarine and its crew of medical experts - plus a double-agent saboteur (Pleasence) - are miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of an important scientist in order to remove by laser a blood-clot from his brain. In the finale - a race to escape before they revert full size while still inside the body - they exit via a tear duct with only seconds to spare. The special effects by L.B. Abbott, Art Cruicks Freudian reverberations, and many people will prefer Walas' emphasis on the corruption of an external agency (Industry) to Cronenberg's emphasis on the tragic divisions of the Self. |
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