The Invisible Agent (1942)

[moon_custafer]

 It's been snowing off and on. Friday night we watched a couple of Universal's lesser-known sequels to The Invisible Man: The Invisible Agent and The Invisible Man's Revenge, both of which were deeply weird.

The Invisible Agent (1942)
It's like Curt Siodmak saw Leslie Howard disappearing into the shadows at the end of Pimpernel Smith and thought "

Comments

Out of sight, out of mind

[palain_7]

The invisible characters don't do so well; except of course on the radio. David McCallum's invisible spy show ended up an obscure footnote to his career. Hardly anyone remembers that Abbott and Costello met the Invisible Man along with the Wolfman, Frankenstein's Monster and Dracula.

This does not bode well for Johnny Depp's upcoming turn at the role.

RE: Out of sight, out of mind

[moon_custafer]

Oh, the effects were great, actually; and most of the script was pretty good. It was just one of those movies where the ostensible hero is the least interesting character.

[heliopausa]

Thank you! That's very interesting, especially the business of Peter Lorre's acting, and how the cool, courteous (am I reading too much in?) Japanese enemy is contrasted with the easily angered, buffoonish German enemy. You inspired me to go to see if I could find a clip of him as Ikito on the internet, and found the first five minutes of the film on Youtube - his toying with the guillotine was nicely menacing.