The Invisible Man (1933)




The Invisible Man

Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart - The Invisible Man




During a harsh winter, Jack Griffin arrives at a remote Sussex inn, his entire face covered in bandages and wearing thick black glasses. The innkeeper, shocked by his appearance, agrees to give him a room. Inside the room, he sets up scientific equipment and starts experimenting with a drug he developed called monocane. When Griffin causes chaos at the inn and is told to leave, he reveals that he has become invisible and is driven insane. He goes on a violent rampage and tries to force a fellow doctor to help him take over the world, defying his well-intentioned mentor Dr. Cranley. When Flora, his former love, pleads with him to turn himself in, he laughs and runs off, shouting "The whole world is my hiding place."


Film programs

Illustrierter Film-Kurier Wien nr. 800

Books with substantial mentioning of The Invisible Man

Tom Weaver, Biography by Gregory William Mank
John Carradine: The Films
Jefferson, NC, 1999

John T. Soister
Of Gods and monsters, A critical guide to Universal Studios' science fiction, horror, and mystery films, 1929-1939
Jefferson, N.C., 1999

John Brunas, Michael Brunas, Tom Weaver
Universal Horrors, The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946
1990