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.
Practical Effects
Ingenious forced-perspective shrinking effects
Production
Lush three-strip Technicolor jungle cinematography
Acting
Albert Dekker's unhinged monocled menace
Director
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Paramount's first horror film shot in three-strip Technicolor, and the color was so expensive they reused leftover sets from The Jungle Book.
The title refers to Thorkel's thick glasses, not an actual cyclops — though the film's poster art lied outrageously about a one-eyed monster.
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