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The Invisible Ray (1936)
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20 January 1936 (USA)
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Delving into new, strange fields of mystery! more
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Visionary scientist Janos Rukh convinces a group of scientists and supporters to mount an expedition...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Boris Karloff | ... | Dr. Janos Rukh (as Karloff) |
 | Bela Lugosi | ... | Dr. Felix Benet |
 | Frances Drake | ... | Diane Rukh |
| Frank Lawton | ... | Ronald Drake |
| Violet Kemble Cooper | ... | Mother Rukh |
| Walter Kingsford | ... | Sir Francis Stevens |
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Lady Arabella Stevens |
| Frank Reicher | ... | Professor Meiklejohn |
| Paul Weigel | ... | Monsieur Noyer |
| Georges Renavent | ... | Chief of the Surete (as Georges Renevant) |
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80 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #1746) |
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The scene of Boris Karloff being lowered into the pit containing the Radium X meteor was reused in a 1939 Universal serial, "The Phantom Creeps," starring Bela Lugosi. Karloff essentially "doubled" for Lugosi in the sequence since in "The Phantom Creeps" it was Lugosi who was lowered into the pit.
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Errors in geography: The film shows a clipping from a news magazine announcing that the principal characters have gone on an expedition to Nigeria to find the meteor containing Radium X. Yet in the earlier sequence showing the meteor landing on earth, it hit on the southwest coast of Africa over 1,000 miles away from Nigeria.
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Ronald Drake:
Diana, my dear, there are no such things as curses!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Son of Svengoolie: The Invisible Ray (1936) (#1.49)" (1980)
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Soundtrack:
The Wedding March
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One doesn't get to enjoy this gem, the 1936 Invisible Ray, often. But no can forget it. The story is elegant. Karloff, austere and embittered in his Carpathian mountain retreat, is Janos Rukh, genius science who reads ancient beams of light to ascertain events in the great geological past…particularly the crash of a potent radioactive meteor in Africa. Joining him is the ever-elegant Lugosi (as a rare hero), who studies "astro-chemistry." Frances Drake is the lovely, underused young wife; Frank Lawton the romantic temptation; and the divine Violet Kemble Cooper is Mother Rukh, in a performance worthy of Maria Ospenskya.
The story moves swiftly in bold episodes, with special effects that are still handsome. It also contains some wonderful lines. One Rukh restores his mother's sight, he asks, "Mother, can you see, can you see?" "Yes, I can see…more clearly than ever. And what I see frightens me." Even better when mother Rukh says, "He broke the first law of science." I am not alone among my acquaintance in having puzzled for many many years exactly what this first law of science is.
This movie is definitely desert island material.