Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) on Netflix
PG19611h 45mActionAdventureSci-Fi
The Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, and Earth's temperature climbs toward destruction. Admiral Harriman Nelson takes the atomic submarine Seaview to fire a nuclear missile at the belt.
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The Seaview, a nuclear submarine designed by Admiral Harriman Nelson, is on diving trials in the Arctic when boulder-size pieces of polar ice sink around it and the sky above is on fire. A meteor shower has set the Van Allen radiation belt alight, and the world's temperature is climbing. At an emergency United Nations meeting, Nelson proposes firing a nuclear missile at the belt from the Mariana Islands to extinguish the flames. The chief delegate, Emilio Zucco, calls the plan too risky and predicts the belt will burn itself out. Unable to get orders from the government, Nelson takes the Seaview toward the firing point with Captain Lee Crane in command.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Irwin Allen kept the elaborate Seaview submarine sets, props, and scale models built for the film in storage, and when he later launched a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea television series, he simply pulled them back out, producing the show at a fraction of what building new sets would have cost.
- The role of Captain Crane was originally offered to David Hedison, who turned it down after completing Allen's The Lost World, saying that he did not like the script; he would later play the role in the 1964 television series based on the film.
- Set designer Herman Blumenthal did not approach the Navy to do research for the submarine; he relied solely on pictures of naval vessels in the media.
