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Fantastic!

The acting in this movie is really good.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

The notorious safecracker Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from the state prison and Laura Matson (Marguerite Chapman) drives the getaway car. They head to an isolated farm where the deranged Major Paul Krenner (James Griffith) has a laboratory. He has abducted the daughter of Dr. Peter Ulof (Ivan Triesault) to force the scientist to develop a technique to create an invisible army. Paul plans to sell the army for a large amount to any government and now he needs radium to proceed the research. Paul and his partners Laura and Julian (Red Morgan) force Joey to be submitted to the experimental treatment. Then he breaks in a facility and robs the radium. Joey convinces Laura to go with him to the city to heist the National Bank, but he is surprised by an unexpected side effect and becomes visible. What will happen to Joey Faust? "The Amazing Transparent Man" has an attractive art on the DVD cover. However the story is a cheesy rip-off "The Invisible Man". The characters are non-charismatic and the conclusion is awful. My vote is three,Title (Brazil): Not Available on DVD or Blu-Ray

Not as bad as I have read. It always surprises me how Ulmer managed to come up with different camera set-ups considering his budgets and time tables, allowing the editors to add some rhythm to the films he directed. The main problem with "The Amazing Transparent Man", in my opinion, is not Ulmer's direction. He was always resourceful even in the worst conditions, and signed quite a few good movies, as "People on Sunday", "The Strange Woman", "Strange Illusion", "The Black Cat", "The Naked Dawn", "Detour", "Ruthless" and my favorite, "Bluebeard". The problem is Jack Lewis' unfocused script, a too verbose tale about power madness, materialism, lust, raw evil and the danger of atomic experimentation. Everybody here can't stop talking, even when the running time is so short. Surely the script should have had 30 pages full of dialogues and more dialogues. Thankfully it is over fast.

As with THE MAN FROM PLANET X, THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN has one very big Plus in its favor: the script. There are some who argue that the short running time is another plus, but there I would differ: the movie seems to me to be a tad too short. Case in point, the prison escape that opens the movie (it's over before the credits have rolled, if I'm not mistaken): it wouldn't have hurt (except, perhaps, budget-wise) to have actually SHOWN the planning of this escape (it is, after all, essential to the plot). Another interesting aspect of the script is the revelation by Dr. Ulof that he was used by the Nazis to conduct experiments on prisoners in a concentration camp during World War II- one of whom turned out to have been his own daughter (who is now being held prisoner by the madman who owns the house where this story takes place). Another interesting thing about the movie: when the Transparent Man becomes Transparent, some of the scenes are shot from his POV- a neat little deceit. THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN is exactly the kind of movie that contemporary filmmakers are always trying to replicate- with very little success. While I see no reason whatsoever to remake this one, it WOULD be welcome relief from the kind of cgi-driven drivel we've seen far too much of as of late.

First off the scientist was not crazed as it states in the lead in. Doctor Ulof is being forced to do the bidding of a Major Krenner. Krenner is holding Ulof's young daughter locked in a room. Krenner is threatening to kill the girl if Ulof does not cooperate and conduct the experiments. Krenner springs Joey Faust, a well known safe cracker, from prison. Joey is needed to get Krenner the things he needs. Joey is turned invisible and robs a depository of a nuclear material called X13 to facilitate the experiments. Krenner forces Ulof to use the new stuff on Joey. Invisible Joey goes to rob a bank and turns visible and then invisible. He is recognized so the jig is coming to a climax. Returning to the decrepit hide out Joey finds out he has maybe a month to live. So he goes up to the lab, fights it out with Krenner, and they get blown up in a nuke blast. So the world is saved from an army of invisible soldiers which was Krenner's ultimate goal.