The Invisible Man (1933). 70 minutes. Directed by James Whale. Starring Gloria Stuart (as Flora Cranley), Claude Rains (as Dr. Jack Griffin), William Harrigan (as Dr. Arthur Kemp), Henry Travers (as Dr. Cranley), Una O’Connor (as Jenny Hall), Forrester Harvey (as Herbert Hall), Dudley Digges (as Chief of Detectives), Harry Stubbs (as Inspector Bird), E. E. Clive (as Police Constable Jaffers), Dwight Frye (as reporter), and Merle Tottenham (as Millie). Cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Special effects by John P. Fulton. Based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
H. G. Wells was in general not a fan of adaptations of his novels, but in 1935 he gave an interview with Pearl Katzman in Screenland magazine that indicated there was a soft spot in his heart for the 1933 film version of his novel The Invisible Man. Compared to Island of Lost Souls (1932), an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau that Wells utterly loathed, the film of The … Read the rest