Dr. Cyclops (1940): Cast & Plot

In his primitive laboratory somewhere in the Peruvian jungle, a mad scientist named Dr. Alexander Thorkel, Albert Dekker, pursues a radical plan to shrink humanity in order to reduce its impact on the environment. He summons a team of expert biologists from America to examine a specimen under his microscope, since his eyesight is too poor for him to do so himself. One of them identifies iron crystal contamination, a finding that seems to please him. He thanks them for their services and asks them to leave. Annoyed that they have traveled thousands of miles for nothing, the scientists set up camp in Thorkel’s stockade. There, they discover the area is rich with pitchblende, an ore of uranium and radium.