Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 20, 2020

"Dive! Dive!" Film producer/director Irwin Allen let audiences dive deep into the waters of adventure with Voyage of the Bottom of the Sea, his second of three feature films that he made at 20th Century Fox studios in the early 1960s. Prior to gaining a reputation as "The Master of...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on July 11, 2017

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Directed by Irwin Allen Written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett 1961/USA Irwin Allen Productions First viewing/Netflix Instant This apocalyptic submarine adventure provided few thrills to me. Admiral Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon) is also a genius submarine in   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 28, 2015

What was the longest-running science fiction TV series of the 1960s? If you answered Star Trek, Lost in Space, or even The Outer Limits, you'd be wrong. That distinction belongs to producer Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which debuted in 1964 and ran for four years....   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on March 18, 2013

David Hedison (photo courtesy of Diane Kachmar). Although best known as Captain Lee Crane on the classic TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, actor David Hedison has enjoyed a long, successful career in stage, film, and television. Now 85 (but not looking it!), he remains active making...   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on January 24, 2013

It was inevitable that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea would become my favorite TV series in 1964. It had two big things going for it: a futuristic submarine and a never-ending variety of monsters. I knew this was a fact because I'd seen the 1961 theatrical film Voyage...   read more