Dr. Cyclops

Dr. Cyclops

1940 · 63 min · ★ 6.2 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction

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.

Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack · Written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan

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