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?
Plot hole: Even if the white blood cells will attack and destroy the sub and the body of Doctor Michaels the atoms would still remain and take normal size after the critical 1 hour is up. This would also apply to the laser gun which they forgot or left behind on purpose, as well as several dozen litres of saline solution which were miniaturised and pumped into Benes' body. He's in a lot of trouble.
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: They are found and removed from the patient's eye so easily. Why didn't they go in through the eye from the very beginning to begin with?
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Answer: The miniaturized sub was injected into the man's carotid artery (neck) because it directly led to the brain and the blood clot. It was an unobstructed pathway taking the least amount of time for the sixty-minute mission. Exiting through the eye was done as an emergency escape route after the mission was sabotaged and the sub was destroyed. It was only easy to remove the crew once they exited the eye and were floating in the tears. Getting to and out the eye was difficult.
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