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...three water-speed records, knighted by King George V. Even after Sir Malcolm died, in his bed at 64, the shadow remained. Donald sought out mediums, trying to contact his father-sometimes, he claimed, with success: "There he was, laughing uproariously as he called me 'a complete clot...
...highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, four men and a girl are reduced to the size of bacteria and injected into the bloodstream of a prominent scientist. Despite opposition from white cells, antibodies and other microscopic villains, they manage to complete their assignment: the removal of an inoperable blood clot in the scientist's brain...
...even people to the size of a bacterium-for 60 minutes. After a Czech scientist discovers how to prolong miniaturization, U.S. agents spirit him across the Atlantic. Alas, before he can explain the discovery, he is attacked by enemy operatives and left in a coma caused by a blood clot in midbrain. Since no conventional operation is possible, the high command approves a daring plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into the carotid artery by hypodermic needle, with orders to navigate the bloodstream to the stricken area...
...climax comes at the site of the clot, where the navigator (Donald Pleasence) turns out to be an enemy agent, hijacks the sub, and tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...
DeRudder had not regained consciousness after the long, dramatic operation. The post-mortem examination showed why. Part of a clot, found in the left auricle during surgery, had evidently broken away, traveled to DeRudder's brain, and blocked a major cerebral artery. Surgeon DeBakey was buoyed by the fact that the pump's own firm but gentle action had created no clotting problems, though DeRudder had had them earlier...