The Amazing Transparent Man
1960 Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
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A ex-major forces a scientist to develop a invisibility formula, with which he plans to create an invisible army and sell it to the highest bidder. However there are side effects to the formula.
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Pretty much blind to the flaws in a movie like this (it's from the guy who directed Detour for Christ's sake), but I think anyone with a taste for low budget thrillers would enjoy it. The most interesting thing to me is the intersection of science-fiction and a hard-boiled crime movie, which is not something you see too often.
But the story is pretty silly, and there are some weird quasi-literary conceits that kind of get in the way of the fun, like references to the Holocaust and some purple prose that I won't ruin through paraphrasing. If you want to see a cheap gangster movie about a guy who turns invisible though, I imagine this would be the title to turn to.
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Entertaining low budget Z schlock that sadly under-uses the whole invisible aspect.
But the noir style criminal getting the muddy end of the stick, the psycho madman manipulating him to rob banks while invisible, the imprisoned nuclear scientist schtick and a rugged, moustached, rifle toting heavy named....Julian(!) all add up to good times.Silly, cheap, missed potential...but damn it! Still fun!
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Not nearly as bad as its reputation suggests, this flick is fun and amusing if you're open to its goofy charms.
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this movie is slightly over half an hour long
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Pretty much blind to the flaws in a movie like this (it's from the guy who directed Detour for Christ's sake), but I think anyone with a taste for low budget thrillers would enjoy it. The most interesting thing to me is the intersection of science-fiction and a hard-boiled crime movie, which is not something you see too often.
But the story is pretty silly, and there are some weird quasi-literary conceits that kind of get in the way of the fun, like references to the Holocaust and some purple prose that I won't ruin through paraphrasing. If you want to see a cheap gangster movie about a guy who turns invisible though, I imagine this would be the title to turn to.
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Entertaining low budget Z schlock that sadly under-uses the whole invisible aspect.
But the noir style criminal getting the muddy end of the stick, the psycho madman manipulating him to rob banks while invisible, the imprisoned nuclear scientist schtick and a rugged, moustached, rifle toting heavy named....Julian(!) all add up to good times.Silly, cheap, missed potential...but damn it! Still fun!