Albert Dekker stars as Dr. Alexander Thorkel, an obsessed scientist in Peru who encounters four explorers who have come to see him. They are disturbed by the direction his experiments are taking, which involve radium, so in order to get them out of the way, he shrinks them to one-fifth their normal size with an invention of his, placing them in a life or death struggle to restore their normal size, and stop the mad Dr. Thorkel. Filmed in color, Albert Dekker delivers a strong performance, but all the other characters are too bland and poorly characterized to become involved with their plight, and film as a result just isn't believable or compelling.
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