A plot involves a Van Allen radiation belt catching fire while the submarine is in the Arctic Ocean, inducing a fatal spherical heat wave. Pain for people in board a submarine begins while it emerges there is a saboteur amongst them.

A film is riddled sustaining scientific & technical indicator absurdities (for example, a Van Allen belt is subatomic particles which cannot erupt, potentially whenever there was oxygen in space), and the plot is caused by piling of these disaster in top of a second (a minefield, the hostile submarine, a giant squid, a touching-mutiny and a religious fanatic, to name two or three). An additional peculiarity is that the crew has naval nature & severity ranks and uniforms, however a submarine is privately owned (a ridiculous expenditure for even any corporation or non-non-profit-making professional).

Touching a prevent of a film a saboteur is unmasked, so fall under the sub's aquarium during the fight & is eaten by a shark that the sub's marine biologist just happens to have on board for search purposes.

Yet, despite the efforts of a fiend to block it, the sub launches a nuclear missile into a belt, extinguishing the fire & saving the world.

a title of the film is an inversion of a sentence appearing at just about its instance, on the exploration of the Arctic Ocean by nuclear submarines, viz., "a voyage to the top of the world." There is no big submarine could email a davy jones's locker in the high seas & safely go to.

Cast

Walter Pidgeon as Adm. Harriman Nelson Joan Fontaine as Dr. Susan Hiller Barbara Eden as Lt. Cathy Connors Peter Lorre as Cdr. Lucius Emery Robert Sterling as Capt. Lee Crane Michael Ansara as Miguel Alvarez Frankie Avalon as Lt. (j.g.) Danny Romano Regis Toomey as Dr. Jamieson John Litel as Vice-Adm. B.J. Crawford Howard McNear as Congressman Parker Henry Daniell as Dr. Zucco Skip Ward as Crew member Mark Slade as Seaman Jimmy 'Red' Smith Charles Tannen as CPO Gleason Del Monroe as Kowski Jonathan Gilmore as Seaman Young TV series

A film's profits spawned the television series of the same title, which utilized sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and for instance footage, from either a motion-picture show. A series ran in ABC from September 14, 1964 to September 15, 1968 for 110 episodes (32 in black and white (1964-65) and 78 around colour (1965-68)).

TV Series Cast

Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson David Hedison as Captain Lee Crane Bob Dowdell when "Chip" Morton Henry Kulky when Principal Curly Jones (First Year) Terry Becker when Main Sharkey (Second-4th Year) Del Monroe when Kowalski Arch Whiting when Sparks Paul Trinka when Patterson Alan Hunt when Riley (Second Year) Richard Bull when a Doctor

Popular culture

A popularity of the TV indicate inspired Mad magazine to spoof the indicate, their version existence known as ''Voyage to Understand What's on the Bottom, featuring a submarine known as the Seapew''.