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6.2/10 • 126

1940-01-121h 21m

HorrorScience Fiction

They hear him! They feel him! But they can't stop him!

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Directors
Joe May
Characters
H.G. Wells
Editors
Frank Gross

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  1. Cedric Hardwicke

    Cedric Hardwicke

    Richard Cobb

  2. Vincent Price

    Vincent Price

    Geoffrey Radcliffe

  3. Nan Grey

    Nan Grey

    Helen Manson

  4. John Sutton

    John Sutton

    Dr. Frank Griffin

  5. Cecil Kellaway

    Cecil Kellaway

    Inspector Sampson

  6. Alan Napier

    Alan Napier

    Willie Spears

  7. Forrester Harvey

    Forrester Harvey

    Ben Jenkins

  8. Ernie Adams

    Ernie Adams

    Minor Role (uncredited)

  9. Jimmy Aubrey

    Jimmy Aubrey

    Plainclothesman (uncredited)

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John Chard

Oct 1, 2018

7/10

Tasty sequel, far from lazy. Falsely imprisoned for fratricide, Geoffrey Radcliffe (Vincent Price) takes a drug to make him invisible and thus escape. But as he sets about trying to clear his name, the side effect of the drug, gradual madness, threatens to usurp his plans. It was never going to be up on the same level as the first film, The Invisible Man (1933), a genuine classic Universal Studio production that does justice to the great H.G. Wells writing. But instead of going for a lazy cash in, this sequel puts its own stamp on the invisible man premise and rounds out as an intelligent story with dashes of humour and sadness placed within. John Fulton's effects work is still amazing for the era, the cast list is boosted by the likes of Cecil Kellaway, Cedric Hardwicke and Nan Grey, while the finale is rewarding and worth waiting for. Faults? A couple, such as the real murderer is revealed too quickly, thus we lose mystery momentum, and director Joe May often lets the pace sag. But these fail to stop the film from achieving its entertaining aims. It hardly constitutes horror as such, but there's good dramatic worth, berserker science and a cast making the material work. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$281,743.00
Revenue
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Keywords
monsterinsanityscotland yardsequelmurderon the runblack and whitescientistmadnessinvisible personframed for murderescape from jailinvisibilityinvisible man