Tay Garnett directs an engaging episode of the Roach Studio's SCREEN DIRECTOR'S PLAYHOUSE anthology series about a very English professor of English who comes across a way of miniaturizing anything: cars, artillery pieces, ready to be restored to full size later. Michael Wilding as the professor plays it relatively straight, surrounded by a company of increasingly daffy military and lunatic asylum types. Donald MacBride loses his temper engagingly, as he had been doing for decades and the stuffy bureaucracies of modern society -- as of the 1950s, anyway -- are pleasantly satirized. It's not a belly-laughing sort of comedy, but well worth your time.
Review of The Carroll Formula
