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El Hombre que Logró ser Invisible

The New Invisible Man

Mexico 1958
produced by
Guillermo Carlderón for Cinematográfica Calderón
directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna
starring Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz, Augusto Benedico, Néstor de Barbosa, Jorge Mondragón, Roberto G.Rivera, José Munoz, Roy Fletcher, José Chávez, Enrique Díaz Indiano, Emilio Garibay, Héctor Gómez, Maunel Dondé
story by Alfredo Salazar, adaptation by Julio Alejandro, screenplay by Alfredo B.Crevenna, loosely based on concepts by H.G. Wells, music by Antonio Dáz Conde, special effects by León Ortega, trick photography by Raúl Martínez Solares

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Carlos (Arturo de Córdova) finds the body of a murdered man in his stepdad's (Jorge Mondragón) company, and the company's boss José (Néstor de Barbosa) arrives on the scene suspiciously quickly and accuses Carlos of the murder out of the blue. Carlos is then convicted to 99 years in prison, and in jail, he loses all will to live, much to the despair of his wife Beatriz (Ana Luisa Peluffo) and his brother Luis (Augusto Benedico) - who just happens to be a scientist who works on an invisibility serum. And once this is developed, he administers it to Carlos, officially just to calm him down (he's also a respected physician you know), but actually, to help him escape and find the real killer.

Invisible Carlos breaks into José's office and finds out he has used the company as a front for some heavy drugrunning, and he witnesses José killing a night watchman (José Munoz) who has found out about the drugrunning as well. But the real shocker is that he then learns that José was actually working for Beatriz's dad, and it was daddy who committed the murder Carlos was convicted for. Since Carlos doesn't want to hurt Beatriz, he claims he has lost interest in finding the real killer and just asks Luis to make him visible again so he and Beatriz can leave the country. This isn't as easy though, because Luis has not developed a visibility serum yet. Meanwhile the police have come to the conclusion that they are after an invisible man, so Carlos feels an urge to get both José and Beatriz's dad to confess - which they do, via letter, then they kill each other in a shoot-out that has developed out of the situation.

With the confessions, Carlos is acquitted of everything, and technically, he's a free man ... but there's a new problem: the invisibility serum also makes him insane, and now he wants to become a top terrorist, comparing himself to the wrath of God - but when he wants to release bacteria into the water reservoir, he, despite his invisibility, is gunned down by machine guns of the police, and only in dying, he becomes visible once again.

 

Basically, this film is little more than a(n inofficial) remake of The Invisible Man Returns from 1940, in itself a poor sequel to the original Invisible Man. And what goes for The Invisible Man Returns also goes for The New Invisible Man of course: It's a rather tired mix of murder mystery and science fiction, which at no time really manages to captivate the audience, and which is not at all helped by its finale in which the invisible man finally goes mad - because this finale seems to come out of nowhere.

That all said, the film still has some nostalgic charm, and the rather basic effects certainly work in the film's favour at least in my book, but in all, the film is far from a genre classic or even a good movie.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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