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Title:The Invisible Woman


Date: 1940
Type: Sci-Fi / Comedy
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: A Edward Sutherland
Producer:

Comment
A professor (John Barrymore) invents a machine that can turn things invisible. When he wants to try it on a person, he puts an advertisment in the paper for a volunteer. A model (Virginia Bruce) volunteers so she can get her own back on her boss. Things get complicated when a group of crooks (Oscar Homolka) steal the machine. This film is much more comedy than sci-fi, with Virgnia Bruce having fun as the model who turns invisible, and some nice support from Charles Ruggles and Margarte Hamilton as the ut upn servants and Oscar Homolka as the leader of the gang. BY modern standards the effects are basic, but they are effective for this film made in 1940.

Actors

Virginia BruceVirginia Bruce
John BarrymoreJohn Barrymore
John Howard
CHarles RugglesCharles Ruggles
Oscar HomolkaOscar Homolka
Edward BrophyEdward Brophy
Donald MacBride
Margaret HamiltonMargaret Hamilton
Shemp Howard
Anne NagelAnne Nagel
Kathryn AdamsKathryn Adams
Maria Montez
Charles Lane
Mary Gordon
Thurston HallThurston Hall
Eddie Conrad

Oscars

Nomination - Special effects