When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, t... Read allWhen the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
- Seaman Kowalski
- (as Delbert Monroe)
- Cookie
- (as Anthony Monaco)
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Did you know
- TriviaBarbara Eden (Cathy) and Michael Ansara (Miguel) were married at the time this film was made.
- GoofsSince space is a premium with submarines, there is not a submarine in the world that would have ten foot high ceilings inside the living quarters and operational spaces as shown.
- Quotes
Admiral Nelson: Alvarez, are you saying - that man must accept destruction even though it's in his power to avert it?
Alvarez: It's not for us to judge, Admiral. Freeze!
Admiral Nelson: Not to judge, maybe, but we can reason. If God ordains that man should die without a fight, then why does he give us the will to live?
- ConnectionsEdited into Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock (1964)
Voyage is a sci-fic movie, a disaster movie about a fire, an end-of-the-world movie, a movie with striking sets/miniature effects, and finally, the very first Irwin show to highlight the need of a top (and loud) musical score, thanks to composer Paul Sawtell.
This epic begins with Frankie Avalon singing - "Come with me, come with me, on a Voyage, to the Bottom, of the Sea" - and this totally under-rated song (it compares with the best of Sinatra!) should have been re-used in the Voyage/Sea TV series...as everything else in this picture was lifted into the series.
Shortly after, the film then moves into Admiral Nelson giving us a tour of the submarine Seaview, which resembles the opening minutes of the Irwin Allen directed Time Tunnel pilot (1966) when we were also given a Tunnel complex tour.
The Paul Sawtell scored footage of the icebergs pounding on the Seaview and the footage of the Seaview surfacing in a red sea would rank as some of the most striking bits of footage in Irwin's long history of film/TV making! Outstanding!
The cast of this motion picture is fine but I know this cast from other quality productions (Forbidden Planet, I Dream Of Jeannie) and am not all together comfortable seeing this cast on the Seaview. Give me Richard Basehart (and the flying sub!).
Some fans will put down this film because it features no Richard Basehart or David Hedison, but remember this, without this film there would have been no Voyage/Sea (1964-68) TV series. That is recorded fact! The budget for all of these sets, props and effects was HUGE, too huge for a TV series of the 1960s. The series happened because it could lift everything from the film.
One of my very favourite movies ever!
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- Irwin Allen's Production of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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- Budget
- $1,580,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1