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Promotional film poster by Tom Chantrell |
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| Directed by | Leslie H. Martinson |
| Produced by | John Kohn |
| Written by | Larry Forrester (novel) Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay) |
| Starring | Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch |
| Music by | John Dankworth |
| Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
| Editing by | Max Benedict |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | December 1, 1967 (Finland) |
| Running time | 99 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,225,000[1] |
| Box office | $1 million[2] |
Fathom is a 1967 British spy comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Anthony Franciosa and Raquel Welch. Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is a dental assistant and an American skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team. She is approached by a Scottish agent to recover an atomic triggering mechanism.[3] The film was based on Larry Forrester's second Fathom novel Fathom Heavensent then in the draft stage but never published.[4] His first Fathom novel was 1967's A Girl Called Fathom. The film was one of three 1967 20th Century Fox films about female spies; the others being Doris Day's Caprice and Andrea Dromm's Come Spy with Me.
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Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is an American skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team when she's approached by Douglas Campbell (Ronald Fraser), a Scottish agent, who wants Fathom to help find a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon that has gone missing in the Mediterranean. It soon becomes clear, however, that there is more to the situation than meets the eye.
As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):[5]
| Actor | Role |
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| Anthony Franciosa | Peter Merriwether |
| Raquel Welch | Fathom Harvill |
| Ronald Fraser | Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES |
| Richard Briers | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb |
| Greta Chi | Maj. Jo-May Soon (Chinese Secret Service) |
| Tom Adams | Mike, Owner of Casa Miguel |
| Elizabeth Ercy | Ulla |
| Ann Lancaster | Mrs. Trivers |
| Tutte Lemkow | Mehmed, Serapkin's servant |
| Reg Lye | Mr. Trivers |
| Clive Revill | Sergi Serapkin |
The movie was filmed in Mijas, Málaga, Torremolinos, Nerja, in Andalucía, Spain and Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England.
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