Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Submarine Concept Art
Voyage to the Lesser of the Sea (1961)
Today, I'm reviewing Voyage to the Bottom of the Ocean (1961). This scientific discipline-fiction film about a submarine crew who are trying to save the earth from a deadly heat wave stars Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine (photograph to a higher place).
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) is one of the more unusual films of actor Joan Fontaine's career. Information technology'south a schlocky scientific discipline-fiction picture from veteran producer/director Irwin Allen that features Fontaine as the psychiatrist aboard a nuclear submarine.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea begins every bit Dr. Susan Hiller (Fontaine) arrives on board the state-of-the-fine art Seaview submarine for a stint on the aquatic vessel designed by brilliant engineer and retired admiral Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon). Dr. Hiller presently settles into a routine of attending to the coiffure at the Seaview's ill bay and gossiping with secretary Cathy Connors (Barbara Eden) until a deadly heat moving ridge threatens to destroy all life on earth. Nelson hatches a daring plan to finish the rut wave by launching a nuclear missile into space (information technology'southward complicated), but his best efforts are stymied by a skeptical United Nations, reluctant crew, and Dr. Hiller, who labels the admiral mentally disturbed.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the brainchild of the e'er-inventive Allen, who was hired by 20th Century Fox to make three family friendly adventures. Voyage to the Lesser of the Sea is the second of these three films -- the other two are dinosaur motion picture The Lost Earth (1960) and the Jules Verne adaptation Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962). The original script was by Allen and noted screenwriter Charles Bennett (The 39 Steps, Reap the Wild Wind), who based the movie'south convoluted plot on the so newly discovered Van Allen radiation belts, which are zones of energized particles surrounding the earth's atmosphere (learn more than from NASA here, or, if you want to descend downwards a dubious Net rabbit hole, google "Van Allen radiation belts conspiracy theory").
Irwin filled Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with impressive sets and special effects and a diverse bandage that included old Hollywood veterans Pidgeon, Fontaine, and Peter Lorre, teen awareness Frankie Avalon, who also gets to croon the eponymous theme vocal, and newcomer Eden, who would proceed to Television receiver fame in I Dream of Jeannie (Eden also met her future hubby Michael Ansara, who plays a baroque stowaway, while making Voyage to the Bottom of the Ocean).
Voyage to the Lesser of the Body of water received scathing reviews from critics, but it was a sizable striking with the public, and the ever-thrifty Allen went on to recycle the sets and costumes for a Voyage to the Bottom of the Seas Goggle box series that ran from 1964 to 1968. This flick also set the template for Allen's afterwards big-upkeep disaster movie like The Poseidon Chance (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). For her part, Fontaine called the movie "horrendous" in her autobiography and admitted that she only took the function for the paycheck.
Viewed today, Voyage to the Bottom of the Body of water is certainly schlocky, although most of the special effects and sets are still quite impressive (just don't look to difficult at the giant octopus). The plot is beyond nonsensical -- the film starts out every bit a standard underwater adventure before taking a left plow into murderous intrigue, international politics, and doomsday prophecies -- but that doesn't stop Pidgeon from having a thousand time in a scenery-chewing performance that is half Mr. Miniver and half Captain Queeg. Fontaine, who takes on one of the few villain roles, doesn't really have that much to do other and so expect concerned and murmur something most Admiral Nelson beingness a "textbook case," but she certainly has a memorable get out in her Jaws-like concluding scene.
I'll leave yous with Avalon crooning the swoony theme song.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is available for streaming on Netflix. As well bachelor on DVD and Blu-ray.
Source: http://www.oldhollywoodfilms.com/2017/10/voyage-to-bottom-of-sea-1961.html
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