Science-fiction thriller starring Albert Dekker. A mad scientist summons colleagues to his laboratory where he reveals his new discovery - a way of reducing animals to a minute size. Scared that his fellow scientists will reveal his secret, he turns his discovery on them.
Ernest B Schoedsack, co-director of the original King Kong, returns to the fantasy genre with this wonderfully weird tale of a mad scientist (Albert Dekker) who miniaturises explorers in his Amazon jungle laboratory. Borrowing ideas from Kong special effects man Willis O'Brien, Schoedsack crafts a well-mounted science-fiction thriller, the first of its kind in vivid Technicolor. The standard plot now looks hackneyed, and the cueball-headed Dekker is stereotypically crazy. However, the impressive array of oversize props make this a lot of fun to watch.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Dr Thorkel | Albert Dekker |
| Dr Mary Mitchell | Janice Logan |
| Bill Stockton | Thomas Coley |
| Dr Bulfinch | Charles Halton |
| Steve Baker | Victor Kilian |
| Pedro | Frank Yaconelli |
| Silent Indian | Bill Wilkerson |
| Cab driver | Allen Fox |
| Dr Mendoza | Paul Fix |
| Prof Kendall | Frank Reicher |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Ernest B Schoedsack |
| Director | Ernest B Schoedsack |
