The Invisible man is an overlooked whale film simply because it isn’t a Frankenstein It’s his best edited film
Claude rains is very good in a memorable first archiveable role- all vocal (and well done at that) until the final scene where he’s just lying there for 20 seconds
The film eagerly moves—just like the camera. Love the tracking shot through the tavern in the opening and how the film tracks away from rains saddened fiancée
Again, like in bride of Frankenstein in 1935 we have a mooning una o’connor for laughs
Like Frankenstein this is a scientist driven mad by ego and scientific experiments
The special effects are superb—that’s true—but whale adds to them—there are many tracking shots to simulate the movement of the invisible man. it makes the entire film concept, which should be really difficult, seem effortless
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