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The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 American science fiction thriller B-movie starring Marguerite Chapman in her final feature film. 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.
A crazed scientist invents a radiation-based technique to turn men invisible, but his experiment backfires and creates a deadly side-effect. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 1960 low-budget film.
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- Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- 1960-07
What you can't see will kill you! Cult director Edgar G. Ulmer (The Man From Planet X; Detour) was behind this curiosity about Dr. Peter Uloff (Ivan Triesault), a crazed scientist who plans...
- 58 min
- 4.7K
- The Film Detective
A mad scientist makes an escaped criminal invisible in this 1960 film riffed by Mystery Science Theater 3000. Watch the episode, see cast and crew, trivia, quotes, and more on IMDb.
- (423)
- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Kevin Murphy
- 1995-03-18
A crook (Douglas Kennedy) decides to rob a bank instead of working for the mad scientist who made him invisible.
- (6)
- Marguerite Chapman
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Sci-Fi
Scripted by Jack Lewis, The Amazing Transparent Man compensates for its technical shortcomings by sending itself in a half-dozen thematic directions. On one level it is a modernized retelling of Goethe's Faust , as the criminal sells his soul for magical powers that promise wealth, power and love.
A former major blackmails a scientist to create an invisibility formula for his own evil purposes. The movie explores the side effects of the formula and the dangers of invisibility.
