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Nov. 30, 1935
UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
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v Filmed “The Invisible Ray 99 Secretly
a series of fantastic experiments in the field of physics, and that the studio wished to conceal the methods devised by the technical departments for producing the effects. Actually, science now finds itself on the threshold of these discoveries, but the picture shows their fulfillment.
"The Invisible Ray" is decidedly not a horror picture, though the coupling of the names Karloff and
The young lovers, Frank Lawton and Frances Drake.
Lugosi as stars might give that impression.
Though differing entirely in subject matter from "Invisible Man,' it partakes somewhat of the quality of the earlier picture. No character in the story is invisible, the word in this story referring to a ray developed through the discovery of Radium X, a substance a thousand times more powerful than radium, and by means of which Karloff is able to destroy at a distance any person or object toward which it is directed.
The picture shows the actual accomplishment of experiments which science so far has only touched; but which are believed to be possibilities of the future. The date of the story is the year 1937. In an early sequence Karloff, by means of a telescopic device which he has invented, fills the great glass dome of his laboratory with an actual reproduction of the battle of suns and stars in the nebula Andromeda as it occurred millions of years ago. This fiery spectacle is both beautiful and startlingly real.
The advancing and inescapable menace of the story comes later, after Karloff has been poisoned by Radium X. Unless he administers an antidote at frequent intervals, his face and hands become luminous in the dark, and at the end of the picture the disease has taken such a hold on him that he literally bursts into flames and dies. During his periods of luminosity his mere touch brings instant death, and he kills Lugosi simply by shaking hands with him.
It will be seen that trick photography entered largely into the making of "Invisible Ray,1 and the effects obtained are filled with intense interest, both scenically and dramatically. The action of the story moves successively from the Carpathian mountains to Africa and then to Paris.
"Invisible Ray" was directed by Lambert Hillyer. The picture was produced by Edmund Grainger. Story by Howard Higgin and Douglas Hodges.
Screenplay by John Colton who wrote "Rain."
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