Next up on WODS-TV Channel 73 is The Amazing Transparent Man (1960, though it's so creaky it seems about twenty years older). This film actually appears on two of my Mill Creek collections: Pure Terror and Sci-Fi Classics, though I would not exactly call it terror inducing or a classic.
The blurb in the booklet reads:
The Amazing Transparent ManThis was another movie I had never seen or heard of and had no idea what to expect other than it sounded like a low budget Invisible Man knock off. I was surprised to see Jack Pierce, the legendary creator of the classic Universal monsters, credited as makeup artist for this film; the invisibility effect, although not anything groundbreaking, was still a pretty decent effect as a poor guinea pig's skin gradually melts away to reveal its skeleton before it is reduced to full invisibility.
Starring Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith
(1960) B&W Unrated
Crazed ex-military officer Paul Krenner has dreams of world domination when he forces unwilling scientist Peter Ulof to do his bidding. Ulof must develop a process to induce invisibility through atomic radiation. With this in his armory, Krenner plans to create an invisible military force and sell it to the highest bidder. They break safecracker Joey Faust out of jail and make him invisible so that he can steal more radium. Their events take an unexpected turn.
Best quote, by the femme fatale of the flick to the con: "better lay off the giggle water".
Not much more to say about this one, other than the fact that con man Joey Faust reminded me of an unhinged Richard Nixon and the scientist Dr. Ulof looked a lot like Jerry "Frank Costanza" Stiller:
"Serenity Now!"
Here's the trailer:
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