The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 131, 18 July 1941, Page 4

The Theatres

THE REGENT A power-mad scientist with an invention that will rock the world, and five helpless victims turned into capsule creatures one'-fifth their normal size are the principals in the screen's most thrilling drama, "Dr Cyclops," Paramount's adventure thriller in Teohnicolour. Filmed behind locked doors from a closely-guarded secret script, "Dr Cyclops" release solves a riddle the whole screen world has been talking about for more than a year; what is this story so spectacular no word of it can leak out? What is this production that cost a fortune and yet has not a "big name" in its cast? Who are the "humanettes" and why are they the year's mci,t surprising film ehartacters? The seeret is out! "Dr Cyclops" a picture as daring as it is different, tells whnt happens when an unbalanced but brilliant scientist discovers a machine that "shrinks" human beings into miniature people' fourteen inches tall, yet retaining all the etaiotions, functions and personality' of fullsized men and women. The story deals with the experiences of four men and a woman upon whom "Dr Cyclops'" performs his weird experiment . Hair-raising adventures strikes whein the five victims; Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian and "Frank Yaconelli, invade the hide-out of "Dr C3 r cldps®* (Albert Dekker) high up in the trackless Andes mountains of Peru. Lured into the madman's laboratory and in front of his infernal machine the five are turned into humanettes and awake in a tvorld, that turns their blood cold with terror.

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Screening Friday and Satm day "You'll Find Out," KarlofT, Lugosi, Peter Lofre. A gayAut very eerie, story of Spooks anfaPyncopaticn . - The title doesn't seeih to fit the horrific trio, Karloff, Lugosi and Lor re . . . but you'll find out that there are more thrills and spine tingles: than in recent "Horror" films, relieved by plenty of saving music,and laughter. "King of the Lumberjacks'* John Payne, Gloria Dickson, Stanit-v Fields. Warner Bros., who gave us "Valley of the Giants" and "God, I ' 3 Country and the Woman," now bring to the screen another thrilling story of the great Redwood Forests.