Fathom (1967 film)

Fathom
Theatrical release poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed byLeslie H. Martinson
Screenplay byLorenzo Semple Jr.
Based onFathom Heavensent (unpublished novel) by Larry Forrester
Produced byJohn Kohn
StarringRaquel Welch
Anthony Franciosa
Ronald Fraser
Richard Briers
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byMax Benedict
Music byJohn Dankworth
Production
company
Twentieth Century-Fox Productions Ltd (uncredited)[1]
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • 1 October 1967 (1967-10-01) (United Kingdom)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,225,000[2]
Box office$1,000,000 (US/ Canada)[3][4]

Fathom is a 1967 British spy comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Raquel Welch and Anthony Franciosa.[5]

The film was based on Larry Forrester's second Fathom novel Fathom Heavensent, then in the draft stage but never published.[6] His first was 1967's A Girl Called Fathom.[7]

This 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. Writer Lorenzo Semple said "It could have been very good. It's so confused. I watched it a couple of times, and I really didn’t know what was gonna happen! I didn't know who done it or what they'd done!"[8]

  1. ^ Fathom (1967). British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 October 2019
  2. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p255
  3. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, 3 January 1968, p. 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
  4. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989; ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 230
  5. ^ "Fathom". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Reid, John Howard CinemaScope Two: 20th Century-Fox Lulu.com, 2005 p.76".
  7. ^ Richardson, Maurice (13 August 1967). "CRIME RATION". The Observer. London (UK). p. 16.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference shock was invoked but never defined (see the help page).