Dr. Cyclops

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Dr. Cyclops

film by Schoedsack [1940]

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Ernest B. Schoedsack
Later films: The Last Days of Pompeii, Dr. Cyclops, and Mighty Joe Young
…at a grade-A fantasy with Dr. Cyclops (1940). Though it did not turn out to be another King Kong, it was Hollywood’s first Technicolor excursion into science fiction, with Albert Dekker as Dr. Alexander Thorkel, one of the screen’s most memorable mad scientists, who discovers the secret of miniaturization and…
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…at a grade-A fantasy with Dr. Cyclops (1940). Though it did not turn out to be another King Kong, it was Hollywood’s first Technicolor excursion into science fiction, with Albert Dekker as Dr. Alexander Thorkel, one of the screen’s most memorable mad scientists, who discovers the secret of miniaturization and…
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