The Amazing Transparent Man

The Amazing Transparent Man

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Year: 1960

IMDb Rating: 4.1/10

Genres: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast: Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Douglas Kennedy, Ivan Triesault

Paul Krenner, an ex-major with delusions of grandeur, has forced scientist Peter Ulof to develop a radiation-based technique to turn men invisible, with which process he plans to create an invisible army to sell to the highest bidder. He busts safecracker Joey Faust out of prison and forces him to undergo the invisibility treatment so he can steal more radium to further the experimentation. Plans go awry when Faust discovers there is a side-effect to the invisibility treatments he didn't count on.

The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 American science fiction thriller B-movie directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Marguerite Chapman (in her final feature film) and Douglas Kennedy. The plot follows an insane ex–U.S. Army major who uses an escaped criminal to steal materials to improve the invisibility machine his scientist prisoner made. It was one of two sci-fi films shot back-to-back in Dallas, Texas by Ulmer (the other was Beyond the Time Barrier, also released that same year). The production had an approximate budget of $100,000 dollars or a little over $1,000,000 today (2025). The combined filming schedule for both films was only two weeks. It was released briefly in February 1960, then re-released on Sept. 8, 1960 on a double bill with Beyond the Time Barrier (1960). The film was also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

An ex-major breaks a safe-cracker out of jail to use as a guinea pig for an invisibility ray with hopes of eventually building an invisible army. Things go awry though when the safe-cracker develops his own plans. This movie was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 ep. 623. You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page .


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