Universal Invisible Man Movies (1933-1951)
The Invisible Man (1933)
71 min - Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi - 13 November 1933 (USA)
Director:
James Whale
Writers:
H.G. Wells, R.C. Sherriff (screenplay)
Stars:
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane. The Invisible Man is a 1933 science fiction film 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. The film was directed by James Whale and stars Claude Rains, in his first American screen appearance, and Gloria Stuart. It is considered one of the great Universal Horror films of the 1930s, and 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 preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
I realize that "The Invisible Man" has already been posted. I included it here because it is the Movie the whole set was built around and being a Completist I had to.
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
81 min - Drama | Horror | Mystery - 12 January 1940 (USA)
Director:
Joe May
Writers:
H.G. Wells (characters), Joe May (story)
Stars:
Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. 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 Invisible Woman (1940)
72 min - Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi - 27 December 1940 (USA)
Director:
A. Edward Sutherland
Writers:
Curt Siodmak (story), Joe May (story)
Stars:
Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard |
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine. 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' film following 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 wealthy lawyer Dick Russell (John Howard) funds the dotty old inventor Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) to create an invisibility device. The first test subject for this machine is Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce), a department store model who had been fired from her previous job. The machine proves quite successful, and Kitty uses her invisible state to pay back her former sadistic boss, Mr. Growley (Charles Lane).
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
78 min - Horror | Sci-Fi - 9 June 1944 (USA)
Director:
Ford Beebe
Writers:
Bertram Millhauser, H.G. Wells (characters)
Stars:
Jon Hall, Leon Errol, John Carradine |
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends. 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 mad 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.
An eager scientist (John Carradine) tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive (Jon Hall). When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier.
Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) is nothing but a mad, psychopathic killer who should be locked away for good. Still he manages to escape from the secluded Capetown mental institution where he has been committed, and now he is looking for revenge on the respectable Herrick family. A family consisting of Sir Jasper and lady Irene, and their daughter Julie, who are engaged in entertaining, and inspecting, Julie's new boyfriend, newspaper journalist Mark Foster, in the family residence. later that night Julie and Mark leave the residence together, and Sir Jasper and lady Irene are left alone. That's when Robert decides to pay the couple a visit. Quite unexpectedly he enters the residence and accuses the couple of leaving him to die out in the African wild, injured, when they were on a safari together. The Herrick couple defends themselves, claiming they were told that he was dead and not injured, but Robert doesn't buy their explanation. He demands they give him his share of the diamond fields they all discovered together on the safari. Jasper tries to tell Robert that the diamond fields were all lost in a series of bad investments.
Invisible Agent (1942)
81 min - Adventure | Sci-Fi | War - 7 August 1942 (USA)
Director:
Edwin L. Marin
Writers:
H.G. Wells (novel), Curt Siodmak
Stars:
Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
82 min - Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi - 7 March 1951 (USA)
Director:
Charles Lamont
Writers:
Hugh Wedlock Jr. (story), Howard Snyder (story)
Stars:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild |
Two bumbling private eyes help a man wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible to help clear his name. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (also known as Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (full screen title)) is a 1951 comedy horror film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild.
The film depicts the misadventures of Lou Francis and Bud Alexander, two private detectives investigating the murder of a boxing promoter. The film was part of a series in which the duo meet classic characters from Universal's stable, including Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Keystone Kops.
Director:
Charles Lamont
Writers:
Hugh Wedlock Jr. (story), Howard Snyder (story)
Stars:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild
Text from IMDB and Wikipedia combined and edited.
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Thank you Rick, these are all good movies! I think it is good to have as many size files as can be uploaded. For some people, big files are no problem. For others, smaller files are a must. I have 32 Abbott and Costello movies, all in the 699 to 700 mb avi. When I have the time, I plan on putting them up for people who want larger files. All copies have people who prefer that size. I just wish I had the A&C movies in better quality than I do. To me, size matters! it's like when I found Kung Fu Panda in 7.36 gig. I was like a pig in slop! LOL! Even though I will have to finally install my Blue Ray drive, and buy some disks. I think everybody should put up the quality files they have so people can choose. I will get off my soapbox now! LOL!
Larry
If you are getting it for backup get Digistor and Digistor Disks. ------------------------------------- R
I have one small tablet that will only play avi while my other tablets plat mp4 and m4vand just about anything else I throw at them. I don't remember where I read it, or heard about it, you can place a p between the m and the 4 and delete the v and have an mp4. I do it all the time, and they still play. Don't know if it is any thing new to you, but thought I would just put it out to others. Larry
Yes it works with some but not all. it is not an mp4 after you do this your machine just treats it like one and the codecs are close enough together that it works. --------------------------- R