Review of The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) by Michael H — 23 Apr 2011

"Detour" director Edgar G. Ulmer's science-fiction, crime thriller "The.

Amazing Transparent Man" sounds like utter hokum with its melodramatic.

Title. Predictably, most critics and viewers have displayed nothing but.

Contempt for this modest endeavor. Nevertheless, this low-budget but.

Entertaining epic about an unscuplous former military officer who.

Blackmails a brilliant foreign scientist and a notorious safecracker so.

That he can create an invisible army to do his bidding qualifies as.

Above-average. Edgar G. Ulmer spent his entire life helming low-budget.

Features, but these low-budgets didn't mitigate his efforts. A strong.

Cast headed by B-movie veteran Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, and.

The ubiquitous James Griffith, solid scripting by "Yank in Vietnam".

Jack Lewis, and solid production values make this speculative saga.

Worth watching despite its lackluster title. No, this isn't the special.

Effects extravaganza like "The Amazing Colossal Man" and the science.

Fiction aspect isn't overblown like the aforementioned title.

Basically, a European scientist has developed a process whereby a man.

Can be made invisible and the former military man wants to use it to.

Create an army that will enable him to conquer the world. Indeed, this.

Is an outlandish, far-fetched film, but at 57-minutes, Ulmer keeps it.

Clicking with several twists and surprises. This is one of those films.

Where the research occurs and then the complications set in when the.

Man chosen to do the villain's bidding turns against him. "The Amazing.

Transparent Man" is essentially a laboratory experiment gone awry with.

An explosive finale.