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The Invisible Man Collection
The Invisible Man Returns
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.
- Original title
- The Invisible Man Returns
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $281,743
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 23, 2022 · via TMDB
This is quite a good, if a little preposterous sequel. Vincent Price - or, that is, his voice - owns a successful mining business who is framed for killing his brother. With but two hours to go before he goes to the gallows, he turns to his friend who has devised a secret drug that can render the user invisible - but at a cost: continued exposure leads to madness. Once he has used the drug to escape from prison, he attempts to track down the real culprits from his close confederates - including Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Sutton and a glamorous Nan Grey. The ever vigilant "Inspector Sampson" (an on-form Cecil Kellaway) is also on the trail of the transparent fugitive and all in all, we have a decently paced mystery thriller with some quite fun dialogue and special effects that bely that fact that this was made at the very start of WWII with not much of a budget.
John Chard
Oct 1, 2018 · via TMDB
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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Cedric Hardwicke
Richard Cobb
Vincent Price
Geoffrey Radcliffe
Nan Grey
Helen Manson
John Sutton
Dr. Frank Griffin
Cecil Kellaway
Inspector Sampson
Alan Napier
Willie Spears
Forrester Harvey
Ben Jenkins
Ernie Adams
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jimmy Aubrey
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Jim (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Minor Role (uncredited)
Matthew Boulton
Policeman (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Policeman (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Miner at Colliery (uncredited)
Louise Brien
Griffin's Secretary (uncredited)
Charles Brokaw
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jean Brooks
Minor Role (uncredited)
Harry Cording
Miner (uncredited)
Rex Evans
Constable Briggs (uncredited)
Edward Fielding
Prison Governor (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Cookie (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Miner at Colliery (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Bill (uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin
Minor Role (uncredited)
Dick Johnstone
Miner at Colliery (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Bruce Lester
Chaplain (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Miner at Radcliffe Colliery (uncredited)
Edmund MacDonald
Miner at Radcliffe Colliery (uncredited)
William Newell
Minor Role (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Constable at Coal Train (uncredited)
Frances Robinson
Clinic Nurse (uncredited)
Ivan F. Simpson
Mr. Cotton (uncredited)
Harry Stubbs
Constable Tewsbury (uncredited)
Crane Whitley
Minor Role (uncredited)
Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
Phil Karlson
Assistant Director
Joe May
Director
Frank Skinner
Original Music Composer
H. G. Wells
Characters
Curt Siodmak
Screenplay
Curt Siodmak
Story
Joe May
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