Ernest B. Schoedsack — Director (7)

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Dr. Cyclops (1940)
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other title: 独眼巨人博士 / 西克洛普博士 …
"Dr. Cyclops" is known as one of the better "early sci-fi" films, made in '39 and released in 1940. (It is also in color.) But while the story has potential and there are some good moments, this is a very confused film. The plot is simple - crazy mad scientist on some remote island can shrink animals, and wants to try it on humans. He manages this on a scientific team that came to check things out. They get angry, and the crazy scientist eventually gets really angry because his new shrunken subjects won't cooperate. The thing is, the film doesn't seem to know if it wants to be a thriller, or a goofy movie. Dr. Cyclops (never called that but referenced to a Cyclops after one lens in his glasses breaks) looks cool in his "30's style sci-fi helmet" as he performs experiments and can be chilling at times. But there is so much "Disney-style goofy music" going on that it is hard to take anything seriously. The music belongs in a family comedy for the most part, and is played when the shrunken people do things like try to survive, and creep around the floor. Add that a few of them have pretty gruesome deaths and that just adds to the confusing atmosphere. The FX aren't so bad but nothing special. The giant sets built are pretty impressive though. There is a scene where little fires are tossed at a real crocodile's head which probably made animal activists angry. It also takes a long time for anything to really happen. This movie could have been done in a nice tight half-hour. Good for a viewing, but you probably won't watch again. The performance of the guy who plays Dr. Cyclops is definitely the main attraction.

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Long Lost Father (1934)
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other title: El padre perdido
Carl Bellairs and Lindsey Lane, his daughter, meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. They don't much like each other, but wind up working in the same nightclub. Bellairs discovers he has some fatherly instincts and Lindsey that he's not as useless as a parent as she thought.

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The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
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other title: 庞培城的末日
铁匠马卡斯爱好和平,一直拒绝在竞技场战斗来赚取巨额金钱……直到他妻子因缺乏医疗而死去。角斗士的生活让他变得粗鲁,而不正当的组织让他成为庞贝城的首富,当耶稣探访Judaea时,他认识了马卡斯儿子Flavius,后者性格温文,就像象马卡斯以前一样。他们父子二人意见大大不同……而他们的冲突因维苏威火山爆发而中断。

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King Kong (1933)
King Kong
★ 7.7 50 ratings
梅里安·C·库珀 / 欧内斯特·B·舍德萨克 actor: 菲伊·雷 / 罗伯特·阿姆斯特朗 …
other title: 金刚 / 金刚:1933年版 …
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.