The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
- Directed by
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 57 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 4.0 of 10 from 63 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An insane former army major forces an escaped criminal to steal parts so that a scientist can finish building an invisibility machine. The major plans to use the device for crime and chaos.
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What happens
The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 American science fiction thriller B-movie directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Marguerite Chapman (in her final feature film) and Douglas Kennedy. 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. It was one of two sci-fi films shot back-to-back in Dallas, Texas by Ulmer (the other was Beyond the Time Barrier, also released that same year). The production had an approximate budget of $100,000 or a little over $1,000,000 today (2025). The combined filming schedule for both films was only two weeks. It was released briefly in February 1960, then re-released on Sept. 8, 1960 on a double bill with Beyond the Time Barrier (1960). The film was also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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