The CyclopsThe upside to being 50-feet tall is you can make money just by standing outside car dealerships waving.However, the mutated features of the colossus in this horror movie might scare off customers.When Susan's (Gloria Talbott) test pilot boyfriend Bruce (Duncan Parkin) crashes over a mysterious area of Mexico, she hires a pilot (Tom Drake) to take her, a scientist (James Craig) she just met and a shady mining consultant (Lon Chaney Jr.) to the cursed region where gargantuan creatures are rumoured to dwell.Unfortunately Susan's rescue party is more interested in harvesting the radium that turned Bruce into a mindless Cyclops than in helping her subdue him.Just one of many radioactive giant B-movies released in the 1950s, what sets this black-and-white jungle adventure apart is the Cyclops' unforgettable design and Lon Chaney's drunken performance.Incidentally, a thoughtful gift for a giant is a hot air balloon poncho. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

***SPOILERS*** Laughable monster movie with Lon Cheney Jr playing of all things the sleazy and unethical stock manipulator Marty Melville who's out to make it big by discovering the biggest uranium despots in the entire world. What the greedy and muddled headed Marty didn't seem to get into his thick skull was that the place where he was to make his claim was declared strictly off-limits by the Mexican Government and he would end up behind bars if he ever filed a claim for it! Marty got hooked up with Susan Winters, Gloria Talbert, and her pilot and good friend Lee Brand & Russ Bradford, Tom Drake & James Craig, in them trying to find her long lost fiancée Bruce Benton, Duncan Perkins, who got himself lost in the woods or the Yucatan Mountains when his plane crashed there three years ago.Told by the Mexican officials not to travel there or end out being prosecuted for trespassing the quartet makes their way into the Yucatan mountain range where Bruce is supposed to be and end up finding out that it's loaded with tons and tons of precious uranium. What they soon find out is that the place is crawling with giant rodents lizards insects and birds that the uranium has somehow caused to grow as much as a dozen times the average size. One of the creatures inhabiting that area is a 25 foot one eyed bald headed man, with half his face blown away, who turns out to be Susan's long lost lover & fiancée Bruce Benton!With Bruce seeing Susan he tries to get in on with her but his size and injuries, as well as not having a suite and pants big enough to fit him, makes that all impossible for the poor guy in that no preacher or minister will ever participate in officiating in their marriage! Susan herself gets second thoughts when she gets a good look at Bruce, who's face looks like a cracked egg with the yoke exposed or dripping out of it, and realizes that he's not exactly her type which makes the dejected and stood-up guy really lose it. ***SPOILERS*** Marty who from the way he acted was anything but interested in being in the movie got his wish by being killed by Big Bruce whom he was trying to gun down when the big guy,in being told to get lost by Susan, went bananas. After having it out with what looked like a 50 foot giant reticulated python, that looked and acted like it was heavily tranquilized, Bruce took off against Susan and Lee & Brand only to slip up and end up going blind when Russ poked him in his only good eye with a fiery hand-made lance! With that or Bruce out of the way the trio,Susan Russ & Lee, flew off into the sunset back to civilization where their faced with a stretch behind bars but at least don't have to face Bruce and his animal friends which would be far far worse!

This is a GREAT movie for you Bronson Caves fans. It is also a GREAT Monster Movie. Well worth seeing. The Cyclops, is the same as "The Colassal Beast" and "War of the Colassal Beast. Really scary monster! There are plenty of other good monsters also. Lon Chaney does an excellent job as always. Plenty of Griffith Park woods scenes for the Griffith park fan also. I highly suggest this movie for fans of classic Black and White Monster movies. The kind we waited until late Friday or Saturday night to watch. It is amazing how scary this film is when you were in your before, or early teen years. PLEASE take the time to watch this movie! You will be glad you did. It is also well worth owning. I gave it a TEN!

Absurd but fun 1950s silliness from Bert I' Gordon, as a woman (Gloria Talbott) hires a team of three men to fly into a remote area of Mexico to help find her missing fiancé who disappeared a few years earlier. What they discover is a forsaken land contaminated by radiation which has produced giant animals and reptiles, as well as a raging 25-foot tall bald man with one eye. The highlight of this show is Lon Chaney as a punchy hot-head on the expedition, who cares more about finding uranium than he does saving a man's life. The monster itself becomes annoying with his consistently dubbed roars and growls.** out of ****