Happy Thursday, everyone! This is going to be a short one, as there's honestly not a lot of difference between and the original The Invisible Man, but there's some interesting differences to look at.
The main difference is that this time, the Invisible Man (here played by Vincent Price) isn't a scientist, but Sir Geoffrey Radcliffe, a man wrongly sentenced to death for the murder of his brother. Dr. Frank Griffin, the brother of the original man, injects him with a recreated formula and he uses it to escape from prison. The really interesting difference is that Radcliffe has been warned that the formula can cause madness the longer he stays invisible and if he's going to find the truth about his brother's murderer he knows he needs to do that as soon as possible.
Radcliffe does have a possible ally in Scotland Yard inspector Sampson, who has already been suspicious of the murderer charges and has been investigating on his own. Toss in a ton of great character actors of the time (it's a little weird to see young Vincent Price, a native of St. Louis, working with people like Alan Napier and Cedric Hardwicke) and it's a very fun murder mystery that edges on what TV Tropes called Whodunnit to Me?, where a ghost is trying to solve their own murder. This is well recommended if you can find it; currently it's just not plain streaming anywhere I can find.
Price is almost 30 here but man, he still looks so young without any facial hair.
Director Joe May is an interesting figure in film, born Joseph Otto Mandl in Austria and a pioneer of German cinema before he got the heck out Dodge in 1933 and emigrated to the United States. He worked quite a lot and though this is only work I've seen, I might have to track some down because he obviously knows what he's doing and isn't slacking on the work just because he's making a monster movie.
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