The Amazing Transparent Man

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

Written by Jack Lewis

Starring: Douglas Kennedy
James Griffith
Ivan Triesault
Margurite Chapman

A former US Army Major arranges the prison break of a notorious safecracker. His need of the safecracker? He is to steal nuclear materials the Major needs, while invisible. The major has forced a scientist to build an invisibility machine and the materials are needed for it.

The Major’s need for an invisibility machine? To conqueror the world with invisible soldiers.

If that brief write-up of the movie seems off and non-seneschal to you, it should. If it doesn’t tell you enough about the film, your right.

Problem is, it makes more sense than the movie does.

The Amazing Transparent man is NOT a gem of ‘60’s sci-fi b-movies. In fact it is an argument against them.

With poor production values, a shoddy script, brilliant overacting and less than an hour running time, this barely qualifies as a film. A least a feature film.

The film left me with some serious question:

Who hires a crook and expects them to do as told?

How does someone control an army of soldiers he can’t see?

Did the producers use the invisibility machine to turn part of the script invisible? You know, the parts with the plot and story?



FINAL THOUGHTS:
The Amazing Transparent Movie!

RATING: 4

The Neanderthal Man

Directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
Written by Aubrey Wisberg
Jack Pollexfen

Starring Robert Shane
Joyce Terry
Richard Crane
Doris Merrick

A hunter claims to have seen a creature that resembles a Saber tooth tiger. The local Game Warden and a scientist investigate only to learn that the Saber Tooth tiger is real and that a local scientist has developed a formula that causes animals and humans to devolve, and turns himself into The Neanderthal Man!





If this movie had been made in 1963 (instead of 1953), I would say it was Way Out, Man. And that would be the best thing I could say.

‘Bummer,’ would be something else.

This is not a film that really goes anywhere. It is basically a creature feature that takes too long to show us the creature, and barely ranks as a feature. The running time is an hour and ten minutes.

The acting, scripting, directing and production values all have something in coming with the Neanderthal Man character . . . they devolved into something primitive. Well, honestly, they may have started out primitive and devolved from there.

Somehow I sat through this entire picture . . .

FINAL THOUGHTS
Not worth watching.

RATING: 2