Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Directed by

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist shrinks a group of people to a tiny size. They must escape from his remote jungle laboratory.

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What happens

Dr. Cyclops is a 1940 American science fiction horror film from Paramount Pictures, produced by Dale Van Every and Merian C. Cooper, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, and starring Thomas Coley, Victor Kilian, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Frank Yaconelli and Albert Dekker. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects (by Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings) at the 13th Academy Awards. Fantasy and science fiction writer Henry Kuttner wrote a novelette adapting the film's story that appeared in the June 1940 issue of the pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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