Bert I Gordons Cyclops Remastered

Bert I Gordons Cyclops Remastered

Lovely Susan Winter organizes an expedition deep into the wilds of Mexico. She hopes to find her aviator fiance?, lost after his plane crashed. Instead she and her three male companions find behemoth bugs, giant battling lizards, mountains practically glowing with uranium, and a 25-foot-tall humane beast with a single eye, a melted-cheese-sandwich face and a very scary attitude. If you like nifty ’50s horror, The Cyclops is the kind of over-the-top frightfest that’ll have you spilling your popcorn. Among the cast: Lon Chaney (The Wolf Man) as a manipulative wheeler-dealer who’d just love to become a uranium millionaire…no matter the danger to the rest of the expedition. Writer/director Bert I. Gordon (Beginning of the End, The Amazing Colossal Man) masterminds the menace.

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16 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
CUT- BUT STILL A TREAT
By Harry Archer
Why in the world would Warner Bros. issue a cut print of this title when a full print is available. With it is Widescreen formally presenting something you would think they would find the uncut version, in particular with it is hefty pricetag. The scene cut is the spear in the Cyclop’s eye aftermath where he pulls it out and cries. A nifty scene that is in all prints I have seen, so why not here. Shame on you Warner’s.

Well lo and behold Warner’s did rectify the problem I brought up here of which I was rectify on the basi release. Go in front a buy the corrected copy- it is great!!!!!!!!!!!

6 of 6 humans found the following review helpful.
Fun Flick – Remastered is Uncut
By Stephen D. Sullivan
This is a fun film from early in Bert I. Gordon’s career. In it, you may see galore of the constituents that would later become B.I.G trademarks: giant people and animals, seat-of-the-pants particular effects, and deadpan sincerity. If you like cheesy monster movies from the 50s, this flick is a good bet. The actors are beautiful and competent, and it’s fun to watch Lon Chaney, Jr. chew the scenery — though it’s genuinely the titular reputation who does the most scenery chewing.

The Cyclops, by the way, looks like a dry-run for the later Amazing Colossal Man/Beast make-up. Half his face is melted and the other half distorted, with a big eye. It’s a creepy if crude make-up. There’s a lot of gorgeous dodgy matte work here — Bert got better at that as he went — and I’m astonished that he didn’t do much of it with forced perspective instead. Still, for all it is flaws, this film is a ought to have for collectors of B.I.G’s work or 50s monster movie buffs.

In other reviews, there has been galore controversy over whether the “pull the stick out of the eye” scene has been censored from this release. Well, I just got my copy of the disc direct from Warner Archives today — 4/7/2011 — and I may say that I _saw_ that scene in this DVD. So, unless there’s more to the supposedly missing scene than the cyclops pulling out the stick and weeping for a moment, I’d say the current edition is intact/uncensored, folks.

Make sure you get this release and not former ones. The DVD quality is good — a nice widescreen (anamorphic?) transfer — and it played fine on my old Toshiba player (not a player/recorder). I would have given it another star, but the SFX are beauteous crude — distinctly from early in B.I.G.’s career. What it lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in imagination and sincerity.

Enjoy!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Missing Scene Added Back?!?!? The Cyclops (1957) DVD-R Returns to the Warner Archive Catalog…
By Collectorman606
For those interested, the Cyclops (1957) DVD-R has “reappeared” in the Warner Archive catalog. I spoke with Warner Service today and they informed me that “the troubles with the basi release have been corrected”. I assume that means that the missing scene that caused such a stir has been added to the current copies being produced. If this is true…..and I say “if”…… I am impressed….. Hats off to Warner! If any person may assert that this is without doubt “fact”, please chime in….. I love that The Cyclops has found a rightful DVD release. My only gripe is the format (DVD-R) which is a less stable medium than pressed DVDs. That, and the “giant” price tag…. Perhaps I must be thankful as, otherwise, this movie would have in all probability never seen the light of day……

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