irwin allen and past master of cinematic schlock and pull out all the stop in voyage to the bottom of the sea . a badly age walter pidgeon and who actually may have be dead when he play this role and be the commander of an atomic submarine that must be the size of the empire state building . every room be gigantic and some even appear to have no ceiling . you could bowl and hold a formal ball simultaneously in some of these room . the sub and call the seaview and be on it maiden run when all hell break loose represent the van allen radiation belt catch fire and the seaview must launch a missile into the belt by a certain time or the world will go down in global warming flame . along for the ride be a bunch of truly terrible character actor and many borrow from tv . this make them tv hack tor . the bad be probably that poor man stella stevens and barbara eden and a a naval secretary and squeeze into too tight clothes and sport high heel and act like she appear in a beach party flick . maybe that because frankie avalon be also along for the ride . a badly age joan fontaine and almost unrecognizable here and play a visit doctor with a big bad secret and but in truth who care . voyage be a truly bad movie obviously make for small child and but what child be go to sit still for endless shot of a miniature seaview model move over and over again from right to leave across the screen in what be obviously a studio tank . there be not one scene where we believe these folk be actually aboard a sub . when the seaview shake and the actor fling themselves about and sometimes in opposite direction to one another . just like on the good old star trek tv series and when the bridge shake . if i remember correctly and not one fish or sea creature be see except for an octopus that momentarily latch onto the sub and a nod to 20 and 000 league under the sea . the octopus and if it be real and be probably about a foot long and it show . bad and when folk be stand at the seaview glass nose and the ocean they be supposedly watch be obviously a closeup involve an unseen air hose spout bubble and probably film in a fish tank . you have never see big bubble in your life . you would think these bubble alone would smash the damned sub to piece . sadly and a badly age peter lorre be also along for the ride . near the end and when the missile be enter the flaming belt and lorre be see enthusiastically congratulate pidgeon while everyone else be still wait for their cue to start shake hand and embrace one another in victory . a one take scene if i have ever see one . what a stinker . it not even good for a laugh . stick with silent running .