The story of the 1940 film by Will Garth The strange adventures of Dr. Cyclops, the superscientist, makes athrilling and amazing horror story. Dr. Bulfinch, noted biologist and his young and pretty assistant, Mary Phillipshad travelled thousands of miles to the Peruvian jungle to answer the call of the scientist, Alexander Thorkel.Near the place where Thorkel carried on his experiments, natives talked fearfully of black magic.But even their weird stories were less strange than the truth.For the hermit scientist had discovered how to reduce people toone sixth their natural size. And he turned Dr. Bulfinch,Phillips and theit team into midgets at grips withworld grown suddenly large and frightening.