The Invisible Man Returns
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joe May
Vincent Price
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Nan Grey
John Sutton
Cecil Kellaway
Film Details
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Synopsis
On the day that he is to hang for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is visited by his old friend, Dr. Frank Griffin, who secretly administers a serum that renders the condemned man invisible. Unseen, Geoffrey slips out of prison to find the real murderer of his brother. Soon after, Frank is visited by Inspector Sampson of Scotland Yard, who questions him about the formula for invisibility that his brother discovered nine years earlier. Knowing that the serum caused insanity in his brother, Frank struggles to discover an antidote before his friend goes mad. Meanwhile, Geoffrey, attempting to elude the police, takes refuge in Frank's office, where he learns that Willie Spears, a lowly miner in the Radcliffe mines, has been promoted to the position of mine superintendent by Geoffrey's cousin and heir, Richard Cobb. Suspicious, Geoffrey follows Spears and terrorizes him into confessing that he saw Cobb kill Geoffrey's brother. Geoffrey then confronts Cobb with his guilt, but Cobb escapes and runs into Inspector Sampson, who orders the house surrounded, but Geoffrey disguises himself as a police officer and escapes. As Geoffrey descends into madness, his fiancée, Helen Manson, and Frank try to restrain him, but he tricks them and escapes to continue his pursuit of Cobb. Geoffrey chases Cobb to the mine, and as the two struggle on the coal elevator, Geoffrey is shot by the police and Cobb falls to his death as the cart overturns. Before he dies, however, Cobb confesses to the murder. Geoffrey, suffering from his bullet wound and pneumonia, returns to Helen and Frank. To save his life, Frank administers a blood transfusion that turns out to be the antidote that restores his sanity and visibility.
Director
Joe May
Cast
Vincent Price
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Nan Grey
John Sutton
Cecil Kellaway
Alan Napier
Forrester Harvey
Ivan Simpson
Edward Fielding
Frances Robinson
Harry Stubbs
Cyril Thornton
Rex Evans
Frank Hagney
Ed Brady
Matthew Boulton
Billy Bevan
Bruce Lester
Paul England
Mary Gordon
Ellis Irving
Dennis Tankard
George Lloyd
George Kirby
Harry Cording
George Hyde
Leyland Hodgson
Dave Thursby
Jimmy Aubrey
Colin Kenny
Louise Brien
Hugh Huntley
Eric Wilton
Mary Field
Ernie Adams
Clara Blore
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Lester Cole
John Fulton
R. A. Gausman
Ken Goldsmith
Frank Gross
William Hedgecock
Phil Karlstein
Milton Krasner
Joe May
Martin Obzina
Jack Otterson
Charles Previn
H. J. Salter
Kurt Siodmak
Kurt Siodmak
Frank Skinner
Vera West
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Special Effects
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Notes
A pre-production news item in Hollywood Reporter notes that Rowland V. Lee was to have produced and directed this film, and W. P. Lipscomb was to have scripted, but their participation in the final film has not been confirmed. This picture was a sequel to Universal's 1933 film The Invisible Man. John P. Fulton (photographic effects) and Bernard B. Brown and William Hedgecock (sound effects) were nominated for an Academy Award in the Special Effects category.
