The Invisible Man (Blu-ray)
CARL LAEMMLE presents H.?G. WELLS’s FANTASTIC SENSATION
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The Invisible Man
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Claude Rains & Gloria Stuart | |
Performer: | William Harrigan, Una O'Connor, Henry Travers, Forrester Harvey, Holmes Herbert, E.E. Clive, Dudley Digges, Harry Stubbs & Donald Stuart | |
Directed by | James Whale | |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent | |
Screenwriting by | R.C. Sherriff | |
Composition by | Heinz Roemheld | |
Cinematography by | Arthur Edeson | |
Art Direction by | Charles D. Hall | |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle Jr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
This thriller falters between grim humor and silly comedy. Adapted from the II. C. Wells novel, it has an amusing and legitimate British feeling in its early scenes.
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Vanity Fair
Rating: 4/4 --
The many special effects -- some retouched on film by hand -- are quaint by today's digital standards, but that only makes them all the more fun.
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San Francisco Chronicle
It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the performances of the cast beyond saying that they all rise to the demands of their parts. As for the settings, they seem very real, and the direction and acting of the uniformed police force are unusually good.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Alarming, both for the way it allows its antihero to fully fall into madness and for the violence that this fall involves.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 5/5 --
The success of this superb adaptation of HG Wells's novel is down to John P Fulton and John J Mescall's pioneering special effects and the eerie atmosphere conjured up by horror maestro James Whale.
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Radio Times
Rating: 8/10 --
Blessed with some greatly terrific visual moments.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: A --
One of my favorites, Claude Rains, in the title role. He's only visible at the end, so gaining the audience's favor must have been a challenge using only his voice and plenty of bandages. The invisibility formula drives him insane. Excellent film.
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Movie Chambers
Product Description:
With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a mysterious man, face wrapped in bandages and wearing dark goggles, arrives in a small English village one snowy night, things start to go awry. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), a chemist who has discovered an invisibility formula, wants desperately to find the antidote, but a side effect of the drug is driving him insane. Becoming gradually more unhinged, Griffin strips off his nose, bandages, and clothes before the stunned villagers and sets about terrorizing the countryside. When he progresses from mayhem to murder, Griffin's beloved Flora (Gloria Stuart) and colleague Dr. Kemp (William Harrigan) work with police to try to capture the elusive Invisible Man. It is a race against time to stop Griffin's plans to make the world "grovel" at his feet. Watch for the stunning special effects during the snowy climax to this gripping, atmospheric horror classic.