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Release Date:
13 November 1933 (USA)
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Tagline:
Catch me if you can! more
Plot:
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane. full summary | add synopsis
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Invisibility
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Radio Broadcast
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Test Tube
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Awards:
2 wins
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(19 articles)
Birthday Suits: Oscar-Snubbed
(From FilmExperience. 10 November 2009, 5:11 PM, PST)
Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
(From IFC. 3 November 2009, 1:01 PM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 10 November 2009, 5:11 PM, PST)
Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
(From IFC. 3 November 2009, 1:01 PM, PST)
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Best Special effects ever
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Claude Rains | ... | The Invisible Man |
 | Gloria Stuart | ... | Flora Cranley |
 | William Harrigan | ... | Dr. Arthur Kemp |
| Henry Travers | ... | Dr. Cranley |
| Una O'Connor | ... | Jenny Hall |
| Forrester Harvey | ... | Herbert Hall |
| Holmes Herbert | ... | Chief of Police |
| E.E. Clive | ... | Const. Jaffers |
| Dudley Digges | ... | Chief detective |
| Harry Stubbs | ... | Insp. Bird |
| Donald Stuart | ... | Insp. Lane |
| Merle Tottenham | ... | Millie |
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71 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 |
USA:Approved (certificate not issued at release) |
Spain:13 |
West Germany:16 |
Australia:M (DVD rating) |
Australia:PG (original rating) |
Germany:16 |
UK:PG |
USA:Unrated
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When screenwriter R.C. Sherriff came to Hollywood to write The Invisible Man (1933), he asked the staff at Universal for a copy of the H.G. Wells novel he was supposed to be adapting. They didn't have one; all they had were 14 "treatments" done by previous writers on the project, including one set in Czarist Russia and one set on Mars. Sherriff eventually found a copy of the novel in a secondhand bookstore, read it, thought it would make an excellent picture as it stood, and wrote a script that (unlike the Universal versions of Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931)) was a closer adaptation of the book.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When the Invisible Man looks out of the bedroom window to see the approaching police as they surround the house, a pair of net-curtains appears on the window between shots.
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Man in Pub: Did you hear about Mrs. Mason's little Willy? Sent him to school and found him buried ten-foot deep in a snow drift.
Man in Pub # 2: How did they get him out?
Man in Pub: Brought the fire engine 'round. Put the hose pipe in, pumped it backwards and sucked him out.
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Man in Pub: Did you hear about Mrs. Mason's little Willy? Sent him to school and found him buried ten-foot deep in a snow drift.
Man in Pub # 2: How did they get him out?
Man in Pub: Brought the fire engine 'round. Put the hose pipe in, pumped it backwards and sucked him out.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Masked and Anonymous (2003)
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Soundtrack:
Hearts and Flowers
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What is the music playing on Kemp's radio?more
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The Invisible Man is a classic movie, with special effects that can still be wowed at today. The reason why these special effects are so great is that they didn't have computers 70 years ago, so you can watch and say 'How'd they do that?". The acting is great, too, and there is even a bit of humour in there too. One of the best horror movies of the 30's. 9/10.