Invisible Agent

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  August 4, 2009

  hypathio7

  Again Curt Siodmak wrote this. Siodmak wrote a lot of the Universal monster movie sequels and wrote the original Wolf Man. All of these sequels to The Invisible Man cannot rightly be judged as comparable horror movies though. This one is an espionage tale with some war time pr...( read more)opaganda and a romance in the mix.
  
  Jon Hall plays Frank Raymond (AKA Jack Griffin), the grandson of the original invisible man. He doesn't know how to produce the invisibility chemical himself he claims, but he inherited enough to use in the future. Again in this story, he knows the extreme danger in using the chemical and so he has no intention of ever using it. Especially when agents from the Axis powers come and try to strong arm him into working for them. Cedric Hardwicke makes his second appearance in an invisible man movie as another villain. This time he is a Nazi officer named Stauffer. This was released the same year as Casablanca and Peter Lorre (just because he's exotic) plays the Japanese Baron Ikito. Griffin, or excuse me, Raymond doesn't even want the Allied powers using the invisibility formula. That is until, duh duh DUH, Pearl Harbor is attacked. Raymond marches right to a meeting of the Allied powers and volunteers to be an invisible agent who will go to Germany to gather some intelligence. Once he parachutes in, he meets an old carpenter who is his contact in Germany. He meets Ilona Massey as Maria Sorenson who is a double agent and right away they charm each other and fall in love. Bromberg as another Nazi officer named Heiser is trying to smooth talk Maria as she tries to loosen his tongue. The invisible agent makes a fool out of Heiser before he reveals the details of Hitler's plan to attack America. So the plot is extended because he's made it more difficult for himself to find the information and Stauffer and Ikito are now suspicious of Maria and suspect an invisible man might be about. The movie portrays that the Germans and the Japanese don't really trust each other, so it gives Americans the comfortable feeling that they are bound to destroy each other. Heiser stays in the action and Maria is suspected to be a triple or quadruple agent. But the big thing is that the invisible man never encounters the threat of going mad this time. In fact, he's a bit of an insomniac. He's such a good all-American boy who is serving his country during it's hour of need that the megalomaniac tendencies of the drug just fade away.
  
  Again, visually, the effects that suggest the invisible man is in a room come off as slapstick. Wires are visible on some of the props again and there aren't really that many new effects introduced. Instead of bandages wrapped all around his head, this invisible man smears cold cream on his hands and face and wraps a towel around his head like a woman having a spa treatment. This preserves his handsome facial features and removes him further from the scary monster imagery. The movie is enjoyable at times and the propaganda is really not that bad.

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  October 14, 2008

  Ghw12158

  pretty much played out

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