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The Amazing Transparent Man

USA 1960
produced by
Lester D. Guthrie, Robert L. Madden(executive), John Miller (executive) for Miller Consolidated Pictures (= MCP)
directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
starring Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith, Marguerite Chapman, Ivan Triesault, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Carmel Daniel, Edward ERwin, Jonathan Ledford, Norman Smith, Patrick Cranshaw, Kevin Kelly, Dennis Adams, Stacy Morgan
written by Jack Lewis, music by Darrell Calker

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Megalomanic ex-army Major Krenner (James Griffith) has big time gangster and safe cracker Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) broken out of prison to use him as a guinea pig.

Guinea pig for what ?

You seen Krennel has forced scientist Ulov (Ivan Triesault) to develop a machine for him that turns people invisible ... and who better to test it on than a convict whom Krennel can also use to - once invisible - break into nuclear powerplants to steal radioactive material to continue the invisibility experiment - and eventually have enough radioactive material to form an invisible army to conquer the world ... or at least the USA.

Hiowever, Faust has some ideas of his own, and even after the first break in he figures it would be more profitable to rob a bank than a nuclear powerplant - and before long he has convinced Laura (Marguerite Chapman) to act as his assistant. However, even Faust's first bank job goes somewhat wrong when he tunrs partially visible while still at it - he still gets away with the loot though. Later he turns invisible again ...

It is then that he realizes he has been had by Krenner and he asks Ulov to make him all visible again, to which Ulov only agrees if Faust frees Ulov's daughter Mary (Carmel Daniel). Only when he has done so does Faust learn a terrible fact: Due to the radiation he was exposed to during the experiment, he has been gravely contaminated and has but one more month to live ... and Ulov persuades Faust to once in his life do the right thing and, instead of spending his time running from the police, face Krenner for a final showdown, just to make sure that he won't form his invisible army ... and consequently, Krenner's house and Krenner and Faust with it, go up in a radioactive explosion ...

 

Of course, on a mere story level, this film is rather silly, but it has at least two saving graces: 1) the film is rich in subtext not necessarily found in drive-in science fiction, like Ulov's past as a scientist who was once forced to work for the Nazis and during his experiments killed his own wife, or the gangster who still has a certain moral code without turning into the gangster with a heart of gold in the end; and 2) The film is more carefully directed than most other similar films, with veteran director Edgar G.Ulmer showing a sure eye in interesting camera set-ups and getting the most out of the cheap sets so the film looks incredibly interesting for a drive-in flick shot in just one week. That said, The Amazing Transparent Man is certainly no masterpiece, and probably not even one of Ulmer's better films, but it's an interesting and entertaining sci-fi-flick nevertheless.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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