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Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

mark.waltz There's uranium in the Mexican hinterlands, bringing down a plane and ironically where passenger Gloria Talbott's missing boyfriend happens to be hiding among the gigantic creatures grown to huge proportions to their regular size. Desert lizards become dinosaur sized, a giant hawk devours a huge dog-sized rat, and the one-eyed title character seeks to find out his past through grunts and groans. So what do the other three passengers on the plane decide to do? Destroy him to put him out of his misery. It's all pretty dumb, with the creature looking like he's got a piece of lettuce over his eye with plastic costume shop teeth in his mouth to give the illusion of deformity due to radio active contact. Lon Chaney Jr. delivers a weak performance as the oldest member of the quartet with seemingly nefarious plans that have no real impact on the plot. James Craig us dull as the pilot, seemingly in love with Talbott and must break the shocking news of who the Cyclops is. Ultimately amateurish and not even funny in a silly way, this ranks as a boring stinker that seems hastily rushed out of the B studio assembly line and would be considered a stinker a decade before it came out.

mrb1980 I always liked the perky and pretty Gloria Talbott. She was almost always saddled with pretty poor roles (I guess "The Leech Woman" was a fairly good one) in low-budget productions. True to form, Talbott appears in this impoverished sci-fi/horror movie about yet another guy grown to monstrous size.The fiancée of Susan Winter (Talbott) is a test pilot who disappeared in Mexico, so Talbott joins a group of searchers trying to find him. Well, they do...and he's grown to monstrous size with a large hole where one of his eyes should be. The remainder of the movie focuses on the monster trying to kill the expedition's members, including the crazy Melville (Lon Chaney, Jr.). The story ends with the monster dead and the survivors flying away.The movie comes to us courtesy of schlockmeister Bert I. Gordon, who specialized in 1950s monster movies with really poor special effects. He delivers another turkey here, including a monster who's identical to the one in "War of the Colossal Beast" (maybe Gordon had some leftover makeup). The whole thing is so cheap and embarrassing that I felt sorry for the cast. Even by Gordon's low standards, this one's really bad.

AaronCapenBanner Bert I. Gordon directed this film that stars Gloria Talbott as Susan Winter, who organizes an expedition to find her missing fiancée in Mexico, where he was last seen. Three men(played by Lon Chaney Jr., Tom Drake, and James Craig) join her, since there is rumored to be a vein of uranium in the area, which is worth a fortune. They do find her fiancée, who has sadly become mutated by the uranium to giant size, insane with one eye. Other mutations also exist, and it becomes a desperate fight for survival of the group, trying to get back to their airplane. Afternoon movie favorite for years, film is ruined by poor F/X and a much too abrupt ending, though does have a good cast at least.

MartinHafer I love 1950s monster flicks. Despite the often cheesy special effects and low-budgets, they were often a ton of fun. So, whenever one of them comes on TV that I have not seen, I am sure to tune in and cheer for the giant ant, crab or whatever the screenwriters dreamed up in this installment. Some are great and some are pretty stupid, but they are enjoyable. However, "The Cyclops" manages to do something that few of them could do--it bored me half to death. So, it had the cheesy effects and budget but lacked fun.The film begins with a wife (Gloria Talbot) hiring a pilot to go on a seemingly fruitless search for long-lost husband. Not surprisingly, they discover the husband has been turned into a giant cyclops and other creatures in this wilderness have turned giant-sized as well. Guess why this is...yup, atomic radiation!! Along for the ride are handsome James Craig and worthless Long Chaney, Jr.--and I say worthless because his part was incredibly one-dimensional even for one of these films. Every minute Chaney was on screen he whined and complained and schemed and I was thrilled when his character was killed! So why else didn't I like the film? After all giant creatures and atomic radiation--two sure ingredients for 50s-style fun! Well, the problem is that there is no suspense at all, little action and in the end, the survivors simply got aboard their plane and flew off...and the credits rolled. Sluggish and not at all fun...this is one you can skip.