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I have been a huge fan of Irwin Allen's TV show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" for over 45 years now, and have come to regard it as "Star Trek" underwater. (Actually, since "Voyage" preceded Capt. Kirk & Co. by two years, it might be fairer to regard "Star Trek" as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" in outer space!) Somehow, however, I had never watched Allen's original 1961 film on which the television program was based...until last night, that is. Now I realize that the film works as a nice introduction to the superior series, and that even though it avoids the silliness that would be the hallmark of the TV incarnation's Season 4, it still remains a strangely corny sci-fi outing. Fortunately, it also features a top-notch cast and better-than-adequate FX; how impressive they must have looked on the 1961 CinemaScope screen! During the course of the film, Adm. Nelson races his new atomic sub, the Seaview, halfway across the world to a spot in the Pacific, where he hopes to shoot a rocket at (and thus extinguish) the suddenly blazing Van Allen belt that is threatening all life on Earth. En route, Nelson and crew face what is by now a familiar roster of "Voyage to" problems: minefields, sea monsters, sabotage attempts, an attacking sub and squabbling amongst themselves. It's all great fun for both young and old alike, but well done as it all is, I kept finding myself yearning for the familiar cast and crew that I'd grown to love by dint of watching those 110 TV episodes over and over again for decades. Walter Pidgeon and Robert Sterling just don't seem as likable to me as Richard Basehart and David Hedison in the Adm. Nelson and Capt. Crane roles. Also, I find Frankie Avalon's title song here sappy and inappropriate, the saboteur's motivations dubious, and the film's conclusion way too abrupt. Nice to see Del Monroe on board, though, with his Kowalski character (here, in this early incarnation, called Kowski). Oh...one of the film's stars, Barbara Eden, gives a very interesting interview on the "Voyage to" DVD, and even four decades later, still looks fantastic; she must have asked for the gift of eternal beauty from a genie in a bottle somewhere....

As the trailer movie explains ¨In all the world of fact and fiction..There has never been an adventure like Irwin Allen's Voyage to the bottom of the sea . Prepare for the most exciting experience , you have ever a motion picture theatre¡ ¨ . This is a Sci-fi thriller in which Admiral Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon) as the commander of an experimental, extraordinarily designed US sea sub called ¨Seaview¨ and as second-in-command captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) take on several hazards and risks that are threatening all life on Earth . They encounter in the Arctic that suffers from melting iceberg caused by a burning radiation belt called Van Allen . Nelson is called into rescue a castaway (Michael Ansara) trapped on the remaining of an ice floe . Later on , there appears a saboteur aboard and the atomic submarine sit races to set off the torpedoes which Adm. Harriman knows will explode the dangerous radiation.Acceptable submarine movie blends adventure , action, intrigue , disaster spectacle, hokey fun ,suspense and emotional happenings with romance included . Our heroes incarnated by a throughly believable casting of the splendid character players get stuck in the ship before the world explodes , undertaking numerous adventures and suffering innumerable perils .It includes a series of interesting ideas that benefit from a decent screenplay and nice special effects to make regular-size Octopus seem like deep-sea giant. There are also mine fields, large squids and attacking sub courtesy of the flamboyant FX team . The protagonists spend most of their time devising intelligent ways for avoid to die from solar radiation . The underwater scenes , burning skies, explosion , pyrotechnics, floods are spectacular but the film is just another usual Hollywood product . High level all star cast as it stars Walter Pidgeon as efficient Nelson , Peter Lorre as his scientific assistant and Robert Sterling and Barbara Eden as intimate couple , plus the singer Frankie Avalon and the fanatic religious Michael Ansara and of course the attractive Joan Fontaine . Lively score musical fitting to action by Paul Sawtell and colorful cinematography by Winton C Hoch . Lavishly produced and directed by Irwin Allen who would go on filmmaking millionaire products as ¨The Poseidon adventure¨, ¨The towering inferno¨¨ and ¨Beyond of Poseidon¨ this picture is one of the last Allen's flops along with ¨Swarm¨and ¨When the time ran out¨ . It's followed by a successful and long running series , a TV show with the well known characters starred by Richard Basehart as Nelson and David Hedison as captain. Rating : Good family fare , acceptable and passable Sci-fi movie ; kids and teenagers will have a fine time.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

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Irwin Allen Does Van Allen

Thrilling and exciting submarine movie dealing with the Van Allen radiation that threatens Earth

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