Fathom

Rating:
Summary: Raquel in all her glory!
Review: Raquel Welch is delightful in the sexy spy spoof FATHOM. FATHOM has just been given its long-awaited DVD release along with the similarly-themed MODESTY BLAISE, OUR MAN FLINT and IN LIKE FLINT.

Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is a dental hygienist-turned-skydiver who is recruited by a bumbling investigator and his young sidekick Timothy (Richard Briers) to uncover a man (Tony Franciosa) and his Chinese girlfriend (Greta Chi), who have reportedly stolen military secrets and encoded information that could potentially end in the earth's destruction.

Fathom ends up in a series of near-fatal encounters as the enemy changes at every turn. Fathom, to her horror, discovers that in order to survive she can trust no-one.

The comical script is played dead-seriously with this stellar cast which also includes the fabulous Clive Revill as Fathom's masterly-foil Serapkin. Welch is luminous in what is regarded as her best film of the 60's, and the film is ably-directed by Leslie Martinson. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).

Rating:
Summary: Raquel in all her glory!
Review: Raquel Welch is delightful in the sexy spy spoof FATHOM. FATHOM has just been given its long-awaited DVD release along with the similarly-themed MODESTY BLAISE, OUR MAN FLINT and IN LIKE FLINT.

Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is a dental hygienist-turned-skydiver who is recruited by a bumbling investigator and his young sidekick Timothy (Richard Briers) to uncover a man (Tony Franciosa) and his Chinese girlfriend (Greta Chi), who have reportedly stolen military secrets and encoded information that could potentially end in the earth's destruction.

Fathom ends up in a series of near-fatal encounters as the enemy changes at every turn. Fathom, to her horror, discovers that in order to survive she can trust no-one.

The comical script is played dead-seriously with this stellar cast which also includes the fabulous Clive Revill as Fathom's masterly-foil Serapkin. Welch is luminous in what is regarded as her best film of the 60's, and the film is ably-directed by Leslie Martinson. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).

Rating:
Summary: NOT HARD TO FATHOM FATHOM'S SUCCESS!
Review: The first entry in the FATHOM franchise has all the action and sense of good fun that later entries in the series so often lacked. Iconic sex symbol Raquel Welch is in fine form as a skydiving dental hygienist (!!!) recruited by a top-secret government agency to (what else?) save the world. It doesn't bode well for the defenders of all that is honourable and decent, but with Welch on the case as Fathom Harvill, Mother Earth is in good hands.

Rating:
Summary: NOT HARD TO FATHOM FATHOM'S SUCCESS!
Review: The first entry in the FATHOM franchise has all the action and sense of good fun that later entries in the series so often lacked. Iconic sex symbol Raquel Welch is in fine form as a skydiving dental hygienist (!!!) recruited by a top-secret government agency to (what else?) save the world. It doesn't bode well for the defenders of all that is honourable and decent, but with Welch on the case as Fathom Harvill, Mother Earth is in good hands.