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