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Fathom is a 1967 British spy comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Raquel Welch and Anthony Franciosa. Fathom Harvill (Welch) is a skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team. She is approached by a Scottish agent to recover an atomic triggering mechanism. The film was based on Larry Forrester's second Fathom novel Fathom Heavensent, then in the draft stage but never published. His first was 1967's A Girl Called Fathom. 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.
Original Release
08/09/1967
US Release
08/09/1967
Cast
Name | Character |
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Anthony Franciosa | Peter Merriwether |
Raquel Welch | Fathom Harvill |
Ronald Fraser | Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES / Colonel Campbell |
Richard Briers | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb / Timothy |
Greta Chi | Maj. Jo-May Soon (KGB) / Jo-May |
Tom Adams | Mike |
Elizabeth Ercy | Ulla |
Ann Lancaster | Mrs. Trivers |
Tutte Lemkow | Mehmed |
Reg Lye | Mr. Trivers |
Directors
Writers
Lorenzo Semple Jr., Larry Forrester
Cast
Name | Character |
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Anthony Franciosa | Peter Merriwether |
Raquel Welch | Fathom Harvill |
Ronald Fraser | Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES / Colonel Campbell |
Richard Briers | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb / Timothy |
Greta Chi | Maj. Jo-May Soon (KGB) / Jo-May |
Tom Adams | Mike |
Elizabeth Ercy | Ulla |
Ann Lancaster | Mrs. Trivers |
Tutte Lemkow | Mehmed |
Reg Lye | Mr. Trivers |
Clive Revill | Serapkin |
Producers
Name | Role |
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John Kohn | Producer |
Peter Medak | Producer |