Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Stephen Boyd
Factual error: Proteus refills its air supply in the lungs. The lungs are filled with normal sized oxygen molecules. How are they supposed to breathe them? (In the book, they had a miniaturizer on the sub, but there is nothing in the movie to explain this.)
Factual error: During the whole voyage except when getting very close to the heart there is no pulse seen either in the blood or acting on the vessel.
Factual error: Where is all the light coming from inside the body?
Revealing mistake: It's painfully apparent that the actors are hung on wires pretending to swim while outside the sub.
Grant: I don't mean to be inquisitive, but this 'cmdf', for all I know it could stand for the consolidated mobilization of delinquent females.
General Carter: Combined miniature deterrent forces.
Question: Just an observation. There's 5 or 6 minutes of screen time between the initial shrinking of the sub / crew and the start of the 60-minute clock. Shouldn't those minutes have been included in the countdown?
Answer: The sub was shrunk in stages, with the lab personnel performing different tasks at each step. The clock automatically reset after each step was completed and as the next shrink phase commenced. The final sixty-minute countdown began after the last shrinking stage and when the sub is injected into the scientist's body.
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Answer: I think the countdown began after the crew were injected into the patient's body.
No, the countdown started after the second shrink.