Dr. Cyclops

Dr. Cyclops is a science fiction horror film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Thomas Coley, Victor Kilian, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Frank Yaconelli, and Albert Dekker, and released by Paramount Pictures. Three scientists  — mineralogist Dr. Bill Stockton and biologists Dr. Mary Robinson and Dr. Bullfinch  — are summoned by Dr. Alexander Thorkel to his laboratory in the Peruvian jungle. They are accompanied by a local miner, Steve Baker who suspects that Thorkel is secretly mining ore. When they arrive they find Thorkel has brought them all the way... there only to identify some crystals under his microscope, since his eyesight is too poor for him to see them himself. Their job done, he now wants them to leave. Insulted, they set up camp in Thorkel's stockade until he will tell them more about the experiments in which he is engaged. They discover that Thorkel is attempting to shrink living organisms using radiation. When he finds them snooping in his laboratory, he angrily locks them inside his radiation chamber.
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