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The scientist Janos Rukh has been expelled from the scientific community due to the lack of credibility in his researches. Living isolated in a castle with his blind mother and his wife Diane, he makes a private presentation of the recently discovered invisible ray to his colleague Dr. Felix Benet, and succeeds in being sponsored by Sir Francis Stevens and his wife Lady Arabella Stevens in an expedition to Nigeria, where he believe he could find a meteor with Radium X. Once in Africa, Janos leaves the expedition alone and finds the meteor, but is exposed to its radiation, acquiring a deadly touch that immediately kills anyone who is touched by him. Meanwhile, Diane falls in love for the son of Lady Arabella, Ronald Drake. Dr. Benet finds an antidote to control the effects of the radiation in Janos to be daily injected, but advises that the side effect could bring madness to him. Dr. Benet returns to Paris and steals the findings of Janos, exposing and using Janos's researches to the scientific community, while the deranged Janos seeks revenge against those that have betrayed him.
Movie Tagline:
Delving into new, strange fields of mystery!
Title: Invisible Ray, The
Release Date: January 20, 1936
Runtime: 80 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Languages: English, French
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.6
Buried.com Rating: 7.6 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With I
MPAA Rating: TV-G
Director(s):
Lambert Hillyer
Cast:
Boris Karloff ...Dr. Janos Rukh (as Karloff)
Bela Lugosi ...Dr. Felix Benet
Frances Drake ...Diane Rukh
Frank Lawton ...Ronald Drake
Violet Kemble Cooper ...Mother Rukh
Walter Kingsford ...Sir Francis Stevens
Beulah Bondi ...Lady Arabella Stevens
Frank Reicher ...Professor Meiklejohn
Paul Weigel ...Monsieur Noyer
Georges Renavent ...Chief of the Surete (as Georges Renevant)
Ernie Adams ...Bit part
Ricca Allen ...Bystander
Charles Bastin ...French Newsboy
May Beatty ...Mme. LeGrand
Ted Billings ...Counterman
Ernest Bowern ...French Newsboy
Helen Brown ...The Blind Girl's Mother
Daisy Bufford ...Mother of Infant
Andre Cheron ...Surete Official Checking Names
Alex Chivra ...Cook
Ann Marie Conte ...The Blind Girl
Edwards Davis ...Scientist
Jean De Briac ...Gendarme
Dudley Dickerson ...Safari Member
Charles Fallon ...Gentleman
Constant Franke ...Police Detective
Clarence Gordon ...Porter and Servant
Robert Graves ...Gendarme
Winter Hall ...The Minister
Daniel L. Haynes ...Rukh's Head Bearer
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
Edmund Grainger
Fred S. Meyer
Writer(s):
Howard Higgin
Douglas Hodges
John Colton
Composer(s):
Franz Waxman
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)"
"The Wedding March"
More Movie Taglines:
- Delving into new, strange fields of mystery!
- Destruction to all he touched or looked upon!
- In his brain
- the world's most powerful secret!
Movie Quote(s):
- Dr. Felix Benet: You observe: those finger marks cannot be seen in the light!
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Ronald Drake: Diana, my dear, there are no such things as curses!
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Ronald Drake: He shan't reach out of the grave and ruin our lives!
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Dr. Janos Rukh: It poisoned me. [pause as his dog comes up; he pets it, and it dies]
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Dr. Felix Benet: There are only two people he wants to destroy: two... or [looming over Ronald Drake] Dr. Felix Benet: , perhaps three.
Movie Trivia:
- The church in which Frank Lawton and Frances Drake get married, though called the "Church of the Six Saints" in the film, is actually the set of Notre-Dame Cathedral recycled from the 1923 Universal production "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
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The scene of Boris Karloff being lowered into the pit containing the Radium X meteor was reused in a 1939 Universal serial, "The Phantom Creeps," starring Bela Lugosi. Karloff essentially "doubled" for Lugosi in the sequence since in "The Phantom Creeps" it was Lugosi who was lowered into the pit.
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Boris Karloff, who was actually an Englishman (true name: William Henry Pratt), plays a Hungarian scientist. Bela Lugosi, who was actually a Hungarian plays a Frenchman.
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Keywords:
Expedition, Scientist, Antidote, Revenge, Meteor ...[more]
Keywords All:
Africa, Poisoning, Radium, Faked Death, Newsboy, Fire, Burning Building, Wedding, Dead Dog, Minister, Blind Woman, Trap, Letter, Church, Murder, Storm, Astronomy, Telescope, Suicide, Mother Son Relationship, Cure, Romantic Rivalry, Laboratory, Photograph, Jump From Height, Glowing, Chemistry, Nobility, Lecture, Paris France, Insanity, Police, Mutant, Marriage, Camera, Eye, Death Ray, Experiment, Eiffel Tower Paris, Dog, Blindness, Statue, Butler, Thief
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Rating: 7.6 out of 10.0 - 68 votes cast total
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