The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 3m.
Synopsis
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
75 audience votes
Key crew
- Malcolm Stuart BoylanScreenplay
- Gerard CarbonaraOriginal Music Composer
- Tom KilpatrickScreenplay
- Ernest B. SchoedsackDirector
- Ernst TochOriginal Music Composer
- Albert Hay MalotteOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Albert DekkerDr. Alexander Thorkel
- Thomas ColeyBill Stockton
- Janice LoganDr. Mary Robinson
- Charles HaltonDr. Rupert Bulfinch
- Victor KilianSteve Baker
- Frank YaconelliPedro
- Paul FixDr. Mendoza
- Frank ReicherProf. Kendall
- Jane WebbWoman (uncredited)
- Billy WilkersonSilent Indian (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
loss of eyesightexperimentperuexpeditionamazon rainforestshrinkingradiummad scientistmurderlaboratoryminiaturizationminiature people