Dr. Cyclops (1940)

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09/04/1940 (US)•Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction•1h 16m

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Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

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Albert Dekker
Dr. Alexander Thorkel
Thomas Coley
Bill Stockton
Janice Logan
Dr. Mary Robinson
Charles Halton
Dr. Rupert Bulfinch
Victor Kilian
Steve Baker
Frank Yaconelli
Pedro
Paul Fix
Dr. Mendoza
Frank Reicher
Prof. Kendall
Jane Webb
Woman

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A review by John Chard

7.5.0

Written by John Chard on May 24, 2014

Strange how absorbed man has been in the size of things! Dr. Cyclops is directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and written by Tom Kilpatrick. It stars Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton and Victor Kilian. Music is collectively arranged by Ernst Toch, Gerard Corbanara and Albert Hay Malotte, and cinematography is by Henry Sharp. A group of scientists are requested to join Dr. Alexander Thorkel (Dekker) at his remote laboratory in the Peruvian jungle. Once there they find the doctor is losing his sight but working on something very secretive. Soon enough they wish they had...