Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940) [RePoPo]

******************************************************************************* Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940) ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type..................: Movie Container file........: MKV Audio Languages.......: English 2.0 (Mono, Untouched) Subtitles Ripped......: Spanish Subtitles in Subpack..: French, Spanish Aspect Ratio..........: 1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio.: 1.37:1 Color.................: Color Source................: NTSC DVD Genre.................: Sci/Fi IMDb Rating...........: 6.3 Movie Information.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032412/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first Technicolor horror film since Mystery of the Wax Museum, Dr. Cyclops was directed by Ernest Schoedsack, of King Kong fame. Albert Dekker chews the scenery as mad scientist Dr. Thorkel, who has developed a process that will shrink human beings to doll size. His first victims include mining engineers Bill Stockton (Thomas Coley) and Steve Baker (Victor Kilian) and biologists Mary Mitchell (Janice Logan) and Dr. Bullfinch (Charles Halton). At first willing to play-act the role of benevolent despot with his miniaturized captives, Thorkel reveals the more sinister side of his personality by abruptly murdering Bullfinch in cold blood (easily the film's most frightening sequence). The rest of the picture details the escape efforts of the three pint-sized protagonists as they hack their way through a jungle of gigantic foliage and do battle with oversized wildlife. Though the cheery Technicolor hues tend to dilute the "scare" quotient in Dr. Cyclops, the special effects are superbly convincing throughout. CAST Albert Dekker - Dr. Thorkel Thomas Coley - Bill Stockton Charles Halton - Dr. Bulfinch Victor Kilian - Steve Baker Frank Yaconelli - Pedro Allen Fox - Cab Driver Douglas Carter - Cab Driver Paul Fix - Dr. Mendoza Frank Reicher - Prof. Kendall Bill Wilkerson - Silent Indian Janice Logan - Dr. Mary Robinson CREW Ernest B. Schoedsack - Director Merian C. Cooper - Producer Dale Van Every - Producer Tom Kilpatrick - Screenwriter Winton Hoch - Cinematographer Henry Sharp - Cinematographer Gerard Carbonara - Composer (Music Score) Albert Hay Malotte - Composer (Music Score) Ernst Toch - Composer (Music Score) Ellsworth Hoagland - Editor A.E. Freudeman - Production Designer Hans Dreier - Art Director Earl Hedrick - Art Director Farciot Edouart - Special Effects ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME REVIEWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.moria.co.nz Dr Cyclops is one of the best mad scientist films of the 1940s. It was directed and produced by no less than Ernest B. Schoedsak and Merian C. Cooper, who only a few years earlier had made the all-time classic monster movie King Kong (1933). When the majority of the mad scientist films of the 1940s became typified by the likes of The Devil Bat (1940), this is one that stands heads and shoulders above all the others, even if for the simple fact that it, unlike all the others, it was made in colour. Although the film has had somewhat of an edge taken off it by today’s routinely miraculous flights of CGI generated banality, it was a real tour-de-force of special effects for the time it was made. The combination of matte work, split- screen and scaled-down sets is quite flawless. Schoedsak sets up some superb shots – like the shot where Albert Dekker holds a squirming Charles Halton up before his looming face in his fingers; or a single-shot encapsulating Dekker’s shooting of Yaconelli as he scales a rock, even down to the tiny splash as the body hits the water. The detail is amazing – like the way the miniaturized horse struggles in the net as it is taken away. The effect of the size difference is further enhanced by shooting the small people only in wide-angle, never in closeup, and almost always looking down on them. (The only problem here being that this tends to make them into an aggregate group and they never really achieve individual characterizations). Before the particular theme was overtaken by the stark metaphoric power of The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) or the unalloyed fun and wonderment of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), this was one of the best miniaturized people survivalist stories. Albert Dekker, one actor whose personal life makes for bizarrely interesting reading, played sinister and villainous characters in a number of films during this decade. His Thorkel is an interestingly shaded mad scientist, much better characterized than most of his contemporaries. Although he is never actually referred to Dr Cyclops – the title is an allusion to the Greek myth of the one- eyed giant monster The Cyclops. In the myth The Cyclops made prisoners out of travelers who escaped by blinding its single eye, something the miniaturized prisoners here do by breaking Dekker’s Coke bottle glasses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.scifilm.org A scientist with bad vision experiments with the power to miniaturize animals. He invites a group of scientists to his jungle laboratory to solve a minor problem, and when they don't leave after he's finished with them, he miniaturizes them. This is a solid SF adventure flick from one of the directors of KING KONG, and though I don't consider it a real classic, it's certainly quite enjoyable. I particularly like Albert Dekker's performance as Dr. Thorkal a.k.a. Dr. Cyclops; his madness is peppered with a number of quirky traits, and he is in fact a surprisingly vulnerable individual. He is like no other mad scientist that I can think of, and this novelty gives the movie much of its appeal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEDIAINFO REPORT General Format : Matroska File size : 1.29 GiB Duration : 1h 16mn Overall bit rate : 2 399 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2009-03-18 02:55:55 Writing application : mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar 4 2008 12:58:26 Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1 Video Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : [email protected] /* */ Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames Muxing mode : Container profile=[email protected] /* */ Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 1h 16mn Bit rate : 2 102 Kbps Nominal bit rate : 2 204 Kbps Width : 640 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.299 Title : Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B. 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BiGFATnoob (2010-01-31)

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