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The Cyclops

  • 19571957
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
4.4/10
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The Cyclops (1957)
An expedition to Mexico finds and does battle with a mutated 25-foot man with one big eye.
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  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi

An expedition to Mexico finds and does battle with a mutated 25-foot man with one big eye.An expedition to Mexico finds and does battle with a mutated 25-foot man with one big eye.An expedition to Mexico finds and does battle with a mutated 25-foot man with one big eye.

IMDb RATING
4.4/10
1K
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  • Director
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Writer
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Stars
    • James Craig
    • Gloria Talbott
    • Lon Chaney Jr.
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  • Director
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Writer
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Stars
    • James Craig
    • Gloria Talbott
    • Lon Chaney Jr.
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    • 39User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    James Craig
    James Craig
    • Russ Bradfordas Russ Bradford
    Gloria Talbott
    Gloria Talbott
    • Susan Winteras Susan Winter
    Lon Chaney Jr.
    Lon Chaney Jr.
    • Martin 'Marty' Melvilleas Martin 'Marty' Melville
    Tom Drake
    Tom Drake
    • Lee Brandas Lee Brand
    Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
    • The Cyclops (Bruce Barton)as The Cyclops (Bruce Barton)
    • (as Duncan Parkin)
    Vicente Padula
    Vicente Padula
    • The Governoras The Governor
    • (as Vincent Padula)
    Marlene Kloss
    • The Salesgirlas The Salesgirl
    Manuel López
    • The Policemanas The Policeman
    • (as Manuel Lopez)
    • Director
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Writer
      • Bert I. Gordon
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    Storyline

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    Susan Winter undertakes an expedition to a remote area of Mexico, hoping to find her fiance, Bruce Barton, whos plane-crashed there some time ago. The area is suspected to have a good supply of uranium, so Susan has promoted this to wealthy Martin Melville to get money for her expenses. In addition to Melville, she is accompanied by guide Russ Bradford and pilot Lee Brand in his small-engine craft. But the plane crashes, stranding the four in an isolated valley, which they soon discover is highly radioactive and inhabited by mutated life forms - giant insects, enormous lizards, and a 25-foot-tall human male with a deformed face, just one eye, and only brute animal instincts to feed and protect its turf... —Rich Wannen <RichWannen@worldnet.att.net>
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    • actual animal killed
    • mexico
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    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • DOUBLE HORROR BILL of ARCH FIENDS! (original ad - all caps; co-feature of "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll")
    • Genres
      • Horror
      • Sci-Fi
    • Certificate
      • Approved
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    • Trivia
      The cyclops myth almost certainly originated in the Greek islands, which in prehistoric times were the home of dwarf mastodons. By the classical period they were all extinct, but their jumbled bones could be found in caves (and still are). Like the modern elephant, the skull has a central opening for the nasal passage of the trunk, which resembles a human eye socket, whereas the real sockets are further back and rather indistinct - thus it looks like the skull of a giant man with one eye.
    • Goofs
      When the plane is first coming in for a landing, still bouncing on the rough ground, the propeller comes to a stop. Moments later, as the plane actually stops, the propeller is still turning at full speed, and then stops again.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood and the Stars: Monsters We've Known and Loved (1964)

    User reviews39

    Review
    Top review
    Not Even Gloria Can Save This One
    Four adventurers go searching on a radio-active island for the girl's lost love. What they find is a couple days work for a special effects department.

    Okay, the reason I tuned in was to catch cult favorite Gloria Talbott in another of her Z-grade drive-in films. She does manage to get into a tight sweater, but she also looks like she swallowed a lemon. There's none of that charming fright girl from her classic I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958). Here she just looks glum, like she can't wait to exit the set. Too bad.

    The rest of the movie almost reaches camp level. The monster's make-up looks like they stuck a billiard ball in one eye and left a Kleenex on his cheek. Besides that endless grunting almost left me hearing impaired. Then too, Chaney acts like he's going to make up for the general lack of motivation all by himself. For former A-movie actors like Craig and Drake, this must have suggested the end of the road, which may be why they just walk through their parts.

    Sure, it's easy to make fun of a drive-in cheapo like this. But even on that lowly scale, this Bronson Canyon, LA Arboretum, special is nothing else than a bad horror movie, dear Gloria or not.
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    • dougdoepke
    • Mar 13, 2013

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 28, 1957 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Los cíclopes
    • Filming locations
      • Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • B&H Productions Inc.
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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