Woodyanders Eccentric scientist Dr. Drury (a nicely quirky and lively portrayal by John Carradine) tests his in visibility formula on wanted fugitive Robert Griffin (a solid performance by Jon Hall), who uses his newfound invisible status to get revenge on his former friends who cheated him out of a fortune in diamonds.Director Ford Beebe relates the engrossing story at a quick pace, maintains a generally serious tone throughout, and further spices things up with amusing moments of amiable humor, with an inspired darts game sequence rating as the definite comic highlight. Moreover, it's acted with zest by an able cast: Leon Errol as hearty old rascal Herbert, Alan Curtis as snoopy reporter Mark Foster, Evelyn Ankers as the sweet Julie Herrick, Gale Sondergaard as the duplicitous Irene, Lester Matthews as shady nobleman Sir Jasper, and Halliwell Hobbes as fussy butler Cleghorn. The special effects run hot and cold. Both Milton R. Krashner's moody cinematography and Hans J. Salter's robust score are up to par. An entertaining movie.

alexanderdavies-99382 The 1933 film of "The Invisible Man" was going to be a tough act to follow as that is a standalone film.This offering from 1944, is a stale and routinely made yarn. The pub scene is mildly diverting but this is mostly tedious.Jon Hall (a totally obscure name) has neither the acting talent nor any charisma as the lead. Once again, Evelyn Ankers is wasted as she has little to do. The only redeeming quality is John Carradine as the eccentric scientist. Sadly, his screen time is all too brief. That slaphead Australian comedian Leon Errol is absolutely appalling!!

bkoganbing A rather weak and confusing script makes The Invisible Man's Revenge not nearly up to the standard set by the first Invisible Man film and the stylish performance of Claude Rains as the scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and its trap.Our invisible protagonist in this film is Jon Hall who has come over to Great Britain from South Africa in the belief that Lester Matthews and Gale Sondergaard cheated him out of his half share of a diamond mine. Let's say that their actions don't allay his suspicions and Hall gets quite the bum's rush out of their house.Alone and paranoid Hall stumbles on scientist John Carradine who's been working on the matter of invisibility. He offers himself as a guinea pig to Carradine and of course Carradine sees Nobel Prize in his future.Of course Hall has other plans to use the invisibility as a method of revenge. He also considers an alternative to killing and stealing from Matthews and Sondergaard. Hall gets one look at their lovely daughter, Evelyn Ankers, and decides it might be easier to marry the fortune. That is if he can get rid of her boyfriend Alan Curtis.The motivations of these characters is quite confusing at times, you're not quite sure who to root for. Even in the end, someone had a marvelous idea for the Invisible Man to get his comeuppance involving man's best friend and blew it in the execution.One very interesting performance in the film is Leon Errol, away from the comic parts he usually had. He's still got some funny moments, but he's also a blackmailing scoundrel as well.The Invisible Man's Revenge is far from the best in the series. Even Abbott&Costello's film with them ranks better than this.

MARIO GAUCI Despite the similar rating to INVISIBLE AGENT (1942) the film is not equal to its predecessor, in my opinion. In fact, I veered between *** and **1/2 for AGENT and between ** and **1/2 for this one: I opted for the midway rating because the former was undeniably silly despite its surface polish and the latter was somewhat unengaging but, at the same, solidly handled.In fact, THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE features a...ahem...revenge plot, settings and characters which would have been more suited to a Sherlock Holmes picture - which comes as no surprise at all since it was written by Bertram Millhauser, who scripted 5 of the 12 Holmes 'vehicles' made around the same time at Universal! Besides, Jon Hall is miscast as a villain (explained as such in the abrupt and none-too-convincing epilogue) - which the script names Griffin but then doesn't bother to make him a relation of the original Invisible Man(!), Leon Errol's comic relief is an acquired taste, and John Carradine here basically duplicates his role in RETURN OF THE APE MAN (1944)...although having his faithful (and invisible) dog as Hall's mortal enemy was a nice touch!