Summaries

Comedy about an invisible man.

Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".—Doug Sederberg <[email protected]>

A trial is underway into the mysterious disappearance of independently wealthy college student Peter DeHaven, a big kid at heart, on the day before his marriage to Christine Lunceford, that imminent marriage which did not sit well with Christine's former boyfriend, Robert Struck who crashed Peter's bachelor party to show his displeasure. What really happened is that the college's Dr. Reginald Shotesbury, who just developed a chemical to revive the dead, tested such on his first human subject, an unwitting Peter who he thought was a dead but who was caught in a drunken bachelor party prank, Dr. Shotesbury, in the process, discovering that the chemical has the side effect of making the subject invisible. While Peter, in some respects, finds that being invisible has some benefits for his life, he and Dr. Shotesbury have to find a way to make him visible again. Someone else who wants that to happen is the doctor's daughter, Joan Shotesbury, who has fallen in love with Peter herself. While Dr. Shotesbury does develop an antidote, problems ensue in administering it to Peter, not doing so within a certain time which may leave Peter invisible forever.—Huggo

Details

Keywords
  • told in flashback
  • antidote
  • serum
  • sanatorium
  • dissecting room
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
Release date Dec 5, 1941
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Production companies Warner Bros. First National Pictures

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 12m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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