Fantastic Voyage (1966)
A - for the time - scientifically accurate film that takes place inside the human body? Sign me up! Also: there is little denying that this one received a loving remake of sorts with Joe Dante's excellent 'Innerspace'. The plot is as simple as it is ingenious: a defecting scientist (probably from Russia) is caught in a car accident and suffers haemorraghing inside his brain. The clot is too difficult to reach with regular surgical means, so a group of scientists (and two soldiers, because of course) is miniaturised inside a special submarine and injected into the bloodstream, with the mission to clear the clot before it is too late. Only catch? They have just one hour to do so before they start returning to normal size again. This also means the film wastes none of our time. The setup is quick and clean and our main characters are introduced and brought up to speed in the span of about ten minutes before the fantastical stuff starts to happen. Stephen Boyd is good as the...
