The Invisible Man (1933 film)

This article is about the 1933 film. For the 1975 television series, see The Invisible Man (1975 TV series). For the 2020 film, see The Invisible Man (2020 film). For other uses, see The Invisible Man (disambiguation).

The Invisible Man is a 1933 American science fiction-Horror film directed by James Whale based on the classical 1897 novel by H. G. Wells called *The Invisible Man.* it was the first ever Invisible man film.

## Synopsis

### Summary

While researching a new drug, Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) stumbles on a potion that can make him invisible. When he reveals his new ability to his old mentor (Henry Travers) and his fiancée (Gloria Stuart), it's clear that a side effect of the potion is insanity. Jack goes on a violent rampage, and the police struggle to hunt him down, unable to see their target, while his mentor and his former partner (William Harrigan) desperately try to devise a plan to capture him.

### Plot

The story begins with a strange man with his face covered in bandages and his eyes hidden in black sunglasses, staying at a village inn called Iping in Sussex.

Ask employees to leave you alone without leaving quarter coins. However, when the innkeeper (Forester Harvey) and his half-hysterical wife (Una O'corner) messed up the room and asked the man who had driven out another guest to leave, the man went crazy. By laughing like this, stripping off the bandages and dropping the master from the stairs reveals the secret that he was an invisible man. When he takes off all his clothes and appears transparent, he strangles the police and kills him.

The true identity of the invisible human being was Dr. Jack Griffin, who discovered the secret of transparency while conducting an experiment on a mysterious new drug called monocane. He returns to his lab with his teacher, Dr. Cranley ( Henry Traverse ). There was a former colleague, Dr. Kemp (William Harrigan) who leaked his secrets, and Dr. Griffin's fiancee Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart). Monocane spreads throughout Griffin's entire body, and Griffin becomes a body completely invisible to the human eye and becomes captivated by madness.

The night after escaping from the inn, Griffin appears in Kemp's living room and confines Kemp. He threatens Kemp to go back to the inn with him to get his transparency book. A policeman comes over there, but Griffin beats him to death with a wooden stool.

Kemp asks Cranley for help, and Kemp's secretary calls a policeman. Flora also came and had a conversation with Griffin until the police came. The content of the conversation reveals that Griffin and Flora are crazy about each other. Griffin's calm enough to call her Darling in front of Flora.

Griffin screams loudly about power, but when he sees police come and realizes that Kemp betrayed himself, he decides to evacuate Flora first. She urges her to be with her, but Griffin convinces her, "The only thing I can do is to let you escape. If that happens, the police can't help you. Come on."

After announcing that he will kill Kemp at 10 pm the next day, Griffin escapes again, rushing through the streets killing, robbing and singing malicious voices. Police have announced that they will give a bounty to anyone who finds a way to catch invisible humans.

Kemp was supposed to disguise himself as one of the police officers to protect himself, but Griffin kept watching him, tying Kemp's hand to the front seat of the passenger car and releasing the emergency brake. And run away. A car rolls down a hill, falls from a cliff, and explodes. Then, he derailed the train and threw two police officers who were cooperating in the investigation to the cliff and hid in the barn, but the police ignited the barn by a report from the farmer. When Griffin comes out of the barn, he finds a severely injured Griffin, visible in the footsteps and flames on the snow.

He tells Flora on the bed of death that some sort of scientific power made him lonely. As soon as he died, the effect of monocane faded away and the original appearance reappeared.

## Cast

* Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin / The Invisible Man
* William Harrigan as Dr. Arthur Kemp
* Gloria Stuart as Flora Cranley
* Henry Travers as Dr. Cranley
* Una O'Connor as Jenny Hall
* Forrester Harvey as Herbert Hall
* Dudley Digges as Chief Detective
* E. E. Clive as Constable Jaffers

## Alternative titles

* *Invisible human beings*
* *Invisible Human*

## Production

Initially, Boris Karlov was supposed to play Dr. Griffin, but as producer Karl Laemli Jr tried to cut the salary set by the contracts many times, Karlov gave up.  After Karlov dismissed, Chester Morris , Paul Lucas , and Colin Clive were nominated for Griffin's roles  . James Whale became director successor of Cyril Gardner, considered an intellectual voice of Claude Rains is appropriate to play the Griffin, finally Griffin auditors was decided to Rains  Raines is this movie Although it was the first starring, Raines was in the role, partly due to Clive's recommendation that Rains was suitable for that role  . Due to problems with writing the script, the movie was repeatedly delayed, and production was suspended in June 1932

From June to August 1933  over to, this movie is in Los Angeles Universal Studios of photography studio  was produced in. At that time, there was an accident in which a smoker was accidentally kicked down by someone and burned into dead grass, burning a large tool  .

This movie was released on November 13, 1933  , with catchphrases "Catch me if you can!" and "HG Wells' Fantastic Sensation."

### Special effects

The film is known for its innovative and skillful visual effects. Wires and the like can be used to create visual effects when the invisible man is naked, but when the invisible man is wearing some clothes, from the back of a black velvet suit's background, the whole body is in black velvet. I shined light on Claude Lanes, who had hardened himself in a suit, and matched this light with the light of the shooting site in a matte usage. The Claude Lanes was claustrophobic and felt suffocated while wearing the suit .

## Sequel

Due to the success of the first film, a sequel title *The Invisible Man Returns* was released in 1940, starring different actors and following different characters. The film stars Vincent Price as a new Invisible Man, while John Sutton plays the brother of Claude Rains's character from the 1933 film.

## Remake

Main articles: Universal Monsters § Dark Universe, and The Invisible Man (2020 film)
In February 2016, it was announced that Johnny Depp would star in the remake with Ed Solomon writing the film's script, while Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan would be the producers. The film was planned as part of Universal Pictures' modern-day reboot of Universal Monsters, called Dark Universe. The series of films, which began with *The Mummy* (2017), was to be followed by *Bride of Frankenstein* in 2019. Franchise producer Alex Kurtzman stated that fans should expect at least one film per year in the shared film universe. However, on November 8, 2017, Kurtzman and Morgan moved on to other projects, leaving the future of the *Dark Universe* in doubt. In January 2019, Universal announced that it would completely scrap the Dark Universe and make filmmaker-driven films based on the classic monsters starting with a remake of *The Invisible Man* to be written and directed by Leigh Whannell and produced by Jason Blum, but it would not star Johnny Depp as previously reported. Later, Variety reported that Elisabeth Moss was in talks to star as Cecilia Kass. Storm Reid, Aldis Hodge, and Harriet Dyer joined the cast in the following months. In July 2019, Deadline reported that Oliver Jackson-Cohen was cast as the titular character. *The Invisible Man* was released on February 28, 2020 to positive reviews.

## References

This is a list of references for **The Invisible Man (1933 film)**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

1. ↑ https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%8F%E6%98%8E%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93\_(1933%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB)
2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024184/releaseinfo?ref\_=tt\_dt\_dt
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Invisible\_Man\_(1933\_film)#Cast

## Gallery

Main article: The Invisible Man (1933 film)/Gallery

**Japanese**
**Invisible Man Appears* (1949) · *The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly* · *The Invisible Avenger* (1954) · *Invisible Man: Rape!* · Oh! Invisible Man · *Oh! Invisible Man – Invisible Girl Appears!?* · *Invisible Demon* · *The Invisible Swordsman* ·*
**Other**
*Invisible Avenger* · *Invisible Invader* · *Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare* · *Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts* · *Kujira Gami* · *Memoirs of an Invisible Man* · *The Invisible Man* (1984) · *The Invisible Man* (1977) · *Dr. Jekyll Meets the Invisible Man* (1977) · *The Human Vapor* · *The Secret of the Telegian* · *The H-Man* · *The Fly* (1958) · *The Invisible Woman* (1969) · *The Amazing Transparent Man* · *Fear the Invisible Man* · *The Invisible Witness* · *The Invisible Man* (2016) · *The Invisible Maniac* · *The Invisible Man* (2017) · *The Invisible Man* (2018) · *Invisible Man* (2018) · *Mad Monster Party* (1967) · *Strangler of the Swamp* · *The Invisible Man Attacks* · *The Incredible Shrinking Man* · *The Astral Factor* · *Attack of the 50 Foot Woman*