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Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt
Mein ist die Welt / An Invisible Man Goes Through the City
Germany 1933
produced by Alfred Greven for Ariel Film
directed by Harry Piel
starring Harry Piel, Fritz Odemar, Lissy Arna, Annemarie Sörensen, Olga Limburg, Gerhard Dammann, Eugen Rex, Ernst Behmer, Hans Ritter, Gina Falckenberg, Ellen Frank, Huzbert von Meyerinck, Theo Lingen, Erich Dunskus, Walter STeinbeck, Philipp Manning, Herbert Gernot, Arthur Reinhardt, Charly Berger, Egon Brosig, Paul Rehkopf, Margarete Sachse, Franz Weber
written by Hans Rameau, music by Fritz Wenneis
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Cabbie Harry (Harry Piel) picks up a passenger (Herbert Gernot) who
seems to be on the run, and who has disappeared once the police catches up
with Harry's cab. But the passenger has left a suitcase behind, which
Harry only notices once home. He opens it, to find a weird helmet attached
to a machine to be worn round the waist, and realizes it's a device to
turn one invisible. He thinks great, sells his cab and pays a visit to the
race track to make a wager on the slowest horse, then using his
inivisibility machine, he scares all the other horses off to make sure the
slowest wins ... and he makes a small fortune at the track. Immediately he
buys himself a mansion and a fancy car, and then he wants to pay off all
of his girlfriend Anne's (Annemarie Sörensen) debts to save her
flowershop from being shut down - but she is quick to figure Harry's money
is dirty money and turns him down. Disappointed, Harry turns to another
female acquaintance of his, actress Lissy (Lissy Arna), who's properly
impressed by his newfound wealth and moves in with him on the spot - but
whose upper-class friends are less than impressed by his rather working
class manners. Then his best friend Fritz (Fritz Odemar) steals the
invisibility helmet and robs a bank. The invisible bankrobber meets
everyone by surprise, only Harry, who knows what's going on, picks up
pursuit in a chase by foot, by motorbike and car, and ultimately by blimp.
Ultimately, Harry manages to get his hands on Fritz and destroy the
invisibility device, but Fritz pushes him out of the blimp ... And then
Harry wakes up, it was all just a dream, and the invisibility helmet turns
out to be a new type of helmet for airplane pilots - but Harry gets a
reward for returning it, just enough to save his girlfriend's flowershop
... and the two get engaged on the spot. What's great about Ein
Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt is its breakneck finale with some
spectacular stunts and chases, most of which were almost as dangerous as
they look. And these scenes are greatly shot and edited, too.
Unfortunately, the movie that precedes the finale is less than
spectacular. Matter of fact, it's in bad need of action, lacks ideas of
what to actually do with the invisibility device (and the race track scene
is boringly done, even), instead hammers home the message of the whole
thing again and again and again in the most trivial way, and the message
("stay humble and honest, cheating never pays") is a very
trivial one at that. Plus, at 98 minutes, the film runs too long for its
feeble premise and gets rather boring before too long.
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