Joe May
Joe May( 7 November 1880, in Vienna – 29 April 1954, in Hollywood), born Joseph Otto Mandel, was a film director and film producer born in Austria and one of the pioneers of German cinema.
Benny Chan (film director)
Benny Chan Muk- Sing( born in Hong Kong, 7 October 1961), is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter.
He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and was nominated for" Best Director" at the 24th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards for the film" New Police Story".
The Invisible Man's Revenge
The Invisible Man's Revenge is a 1944 science fiction horror film directed by Ford Beebe and written by Bertram Millhauser.
The picture stars John Carradine as a scientist who tests his experiment on Jon Hall.
The supporting cast features Evelyn Ankers.
" Revenge" is the fifth film in the" Invisible Man" series, suggested by H. G. Wells' novel" The Invisible Man".
The Invisible Man (1933 film)
The Invisible Man is an American 1933 pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale.
It was based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel" The Invisible Man", published in 1897, as adapted by R.C. Sherriff, Philip Wylie and Preston Sturges, whose work was considered unsatisfactory and who was taken off the project.
Produced by Universal Pictures, the film stars Claude Rains, in his first American screen appearance, and Gloria Stuart.
The film has been described as a" nearly perfect translation of the spirit of the book".
It spawned a number of sequels, plus many spinoffs using the idea of an" invisible man" that were largely unrelated to Wells' original story.
Rains portrayed the Invisible Man( Dr. Jack Griffin) mostly only as a disembodied voice.
Rains is only shown clearly for a brief time at the end of the film, spending most of his on- screen time covered by bandages.
In 2008," The Invisible Man" was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The Invisible Woman (1940 film)
The Invisible Woman is an American science fiction comedy film that was released near the end of 1940 by Universal.
It is the third" Invisible Man" film following" The Invisible Man" and" The Invisible Man Returns", which had been released earlier in the year.
It was more of a screwball comedy than other films in the series.
The film stars Virginia Bruce in the lead role, the aging John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles, and Oscar Homolka, and features Margaret Hamilton, Charles Lane, and Shemp Howard.
The Invisible Man Returns
The Invisible Man Returns is a 1940 American horror science fiction film from Universal.
It was written as a sequel to the 1933 film" The Invisible Man", which was based on the novel" The Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells.
The studio had signed a multi-picture contract with Wells, and they were hoping that this film would do as well as the first.
It would be followed by the comedic" The Invisible Woman" later the same year.
The screen play for the film was written by Lester Cole and Curt Siodmak( as Kurt Siodmak).
The film director was Joe May, who had previously directed" The House of the Seven Gables".
( May's native language was German, and he spoke little English.)
The cast of the film included Vincent Price( in his first horror film role), Cecil Kellaway, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nan Grey, Alan Napier and John Sutton.
The film ran for 81 minutes in black- and- white with mono sound and holds an 89% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
The production ran slightly over budget, costing$ 270,000, but it returned good box office revenues.
The special effects by John P. Fulton, Bernard B. Brown and William Hedgcock received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects.
In the documentary," Ted Newson's 100 Years of Horror"( 1996), Price recalls that the undressing of the scarecrow scene took several hours to shoot, for only three minutes of on screen time.
The transparent effect was done with black velvet covering the actor.
William Hedgcock
William Hedgcock( July 4, 1883 – September 29, 1947) was an American sound engineer.
He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects on the film" The Invisible Man Returns" at the 13th Academy Awards.
He worked on more than 90 films during his career.
Divergence (film)
Divergence is a 2005 Hong Kong action-crime film produced and directed by Benny Chan, from a screenplay by Ivy Ho.
The film stars Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng and Daniel Wu.
The Invisible Man (1984 film)
The Invisible Man is a 1984 Soviet science fiction film directed by Aleksandr Zakharov based on the eponymous novel by H. G. Wells.
Invisible Agent
Invisible Agent is a 1942 American science fiction film from Universal.
The film was a wartime propaganda production that was part of a Hollywood effort to boost morale at the home front.
It loosely echoed a series of formula war- horror films produced during this period that typically featured a mad scientist working in secret to aid the Third Reich.
This film, which is the fourth film in the Universal Studios" Invisible Man" series, was directed by Edwin L. Marin, and the screenplay was written by Curt Siodmak, who had co-written the earlier" The Invisible Man Returns" in 1940.
Siodmak was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and he gave the film a strong anti-Nazi tone that treated the Nazis as incompetent buffoons.
( A scene reportedly edited from the film had the hero placing a boot into Hitler's backside, following an official ban on all such images.)
The concept for the story was inspired by H. G. Wells's novel" The Invisible Man".
Wells had signed a deal with Universal to allow movies based on his work, which began with the successful 1933 film by the same name.
For the cast, the invisible agent is played by Jon Hall, with Peter Lorre and Sir Cedric Hardwicke( who played another villain in" The Invisible Man Returns") performing as members of the Axis, and Ilona Massey and Albert Basserman as Allied spies.
The special effects were produced by John P. Fulton, who had created the effects for Universal's previous" Invisible Man" films.
The movie was filmed in black and white with mono sound and ran for 81 minutes.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Divergence (Film) or The Invisible Man Returns?
Answer: The Invisible Man Returns