BA_Harrison Here's a scheme that could have done with just a little more thought: help professional safe-cracker Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) to bust out of prison, force desperate scientist Dr. Peter Ulof (Ivan Triesault) to turn the thief invisible, and then send him to steal enough radium to create an entire army of undetectable soldiers. This is the crazy plot hatched by Maj. Paul Krenner (James Griffith) which, unsurprisingly, doesn't go according to plan. Hardly the most reliable of chaps, career criminal Faust has his own ideas once he vanishes from sight, robbing banks with the aid of Krenner's sidekick Laura Matson (Marguerite Chapman).At not even an hour long, this low-budget early-'60s sci-fi/gangster B-movie doesn't really have time to drag, and consequently proves rather entertaining for the duration, with some decent performances from the largely unknown cast, a few enjoyable bargain-basement special effects, and a big dose of goofiness (the radium heist and a bank job where Faust becomes visible as he leaves are the film's highlights). The Invisible Man it most certainly isn't, but as a painless way to waste 58 minutes, The Amazing Transparent Man does very nicely (and is better than its current IMDb rating of 3.8 suggests).5.5 out of 10, rounded up to six for ending with an atomic blast!

poe426 As with THE MAN FROM PLANET X, THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN has one very big Plus in its favor: the script. There are some who argue that the short running time is another plus, but there I would differ: the movie seems to me to be a tad too short. Case in point, the prison escape that opens the movie (it's over before the credits have rolled, if I'm not mistaken): it wouldn't have hurt (except, perhaps, budget-wise) to have actually SHOWN the planning of this escape (it is, after all, essential to the plot). Another interesting aspect of the script is the revelation by Dr. Ulof that he was used by the Nazis to conduct experiments on prisoners in a concentration camp during World War II- one of whom turned out to have been his own daughter (who is now being held prisoner by the madman who owns the house where this story takes place). Another interesting thing about the movie: when the Transparent Man becomes Transparent, some of the scenes are shot from his POV- a neat little deceit. THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN is exactly the kind of movie that contemporary filmmakers are always trying to replicate- with very little success. While I see no reason whatsoever to remake this one, it WOULD be welcome relief from the kind of cgi-driven drivel we've seen far too much of as of late.

Bezenby Ah, now this one gets a bad rap here, but it's too short to be tedious and too cute to be annoying. At 57 minutes, you've got a nice compact sci-fi film that won't tax your brain too much (unless you try thinking about the plot).Joey Faust gets busted from the barry hole by a dame, and gets taken to a farmhouse run by a mysterious and shifty ex-army guy who wants to use both Joey's lockpicking skills and a mad scientist's invisible ray gun to create an army of invisible men. That's good stuff right there.After turning a guinea pig invisible, Joey kind of eventually agrees to go for it, and I liked that the moment he turned invisible he started beating the shifty guy up. Joey's out for an invisible score but he finds one problem - the ray's effects don't last that long. What's a career criminal to do? Find redemption by rescuing the mad scientist's daughter?Never dull, full of banter and daft effects, punch ups and the mad scientist asking the audience a direct question I was too thick to understand, I really liked this little film. Loved the stock footage nuke blasts too!

lonewolf-f242 Netflix did the honor of suggesting I would like this 'Gem" based on my recently watching The Invisible Man - With Claude Rains which was made in 1933 - I was eager to see this to see what was going to be different or new in the last 27 years of Hollywood special effects. My favorite effect was when Faust said "I'll have to jump out" and the car shakes - so they don't have to worry about the car door opening. I know someone might say that the door opening would look suspicious - well so would a bouncing car ! I thought the best use of something turning invisible was the guinea pig -and I thought the whole 9 yards of flipping all the switches each and every time they turned him invisible was just about snore worthy. The People who say this is a fun romp of b-rated movies from the time, really must not have seen a lot of movies from the time. the music is generic. the sets are boring. the actors are wooden. and the first 45 mins of the hour long movie is the set up. which happens very slowly. in short, I am left to wonder if this movie was just as terrible when it was first shown at drive ins or if I just expect more due to the mass amounts of movies / shows (since its only an hour) today. Honestly I would believe it if I was told this movie is the reason drive ins started to die off.