☆ ☆
The Invisible Woman (1940) – A. E. Sutherland
Well, I think it was
intended to be a comedy but perhaps the 1940s era humor is lost on me. Or rather, it just isn’t very funny. John Barrymore is at his broadest as the
goofy scientist who invents an invisibility machine and then tries it on
Virginia Bruce, a model who wants to scare her boss. There are the usual gags about having to be
naked while invisible and then there are the other gags about having to be
naked while invisible. Then Shemp shows
up with a few other bad guys who steal the invisibility machine for Oskar
Homolka who wants to sneak back into the US from Mexico (after fleeing the
law). Thankfully, it is mercifully
short. Somehow I thought I was going to
be watching a sequel to the 1933 Claude Rains horror film. Might work better as the B picture in a
double feature for a nickel.
No comments:
Post a Comment