THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) - Movie Reaction - First Time Watching!

Dr Cranley was played by Henry Travers, George Bailey's guardian angel.. 😃

Claude Rains is from Casablanca and Gloria Stuart was the old Rose in Titanic who tossed the diamond in the ocean.

“I feel like this is a horror movie almost.”
Well… yeah. (lol)

I’ve never seen The Invisible Man.

Una O’Connor might be the first Scream Queen

One of the all-time greats! The SPECIAL EFFECTS from almost 100 years ago!

I'm going through the main 30 Universal Monster films currently... About halfway thru... I'm on Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man

Remember in Titanic when Old Rose saw the drawing of her younger self and she said "Wasn't I a dish?" You can see in this movie that yes she was! Gloria Stewart was 23 years old when this film was released in November 1933. She died at 100 in 2010.

"The Invisible Man" was a book by sci-fi literature icon H.G. Wells.

I really enjoyed seeing your reaction to this splendid film, it's a Horror Classic, Cami.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what is coming up during this month of Horror films. 😊

This is 1933, only two years after "Frankenstein," and only 6 years after sound was added to film! Anything before 1927 is silent. It's amazing to think that they could suddenly make these films after sound was added and it really kicks off the popularity of movies! A great movie about the silent era is 2011's "The Artist." By the way that is indeed Claude Rains at the very end, the actor not only voices the character, but he is the character throughout.

@ 2:37 I believe the technical term for that in storytelling is In Media Res from the Latin.

Love the old universal horrors! Can't wait for your Bride of Frankenstein reaction xD that's my personal favorite.

claude raines had a beautiful speaking voice.8:31,dwight frye/renfield of dracula fame 1931

Universal was not the only studio doing horror/Sci-Fi in the thirties. Paramount's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is superb. Frederic March won his first Oscar in the role. For a more light-hearted take on invisibility, you should watch The Invisible Woman from 1940 (not the unrelated film of 2013).

Gloria Stewart who was in Titanic, plays Flora. Claude Rains was fantastic as Jack the Invisible Man. Henry Travers as Dr. Cranely, was also Clarence in It's A Wonderful Life. Una O'Connor as the Innkeeper's Wife. Was in Robin Hood, and The Bride of Frankenstein. James Whale did a great job directing.

A pre-Code film which allowed it to be more brutal than later films would be (after 1934). That was Claude Rains' distinguished voice as well as his body. He would become an all-time great character actor, best known for "Casablanca."

The Invisible Man was directed by James Whale, who also directed Frankenstein (1931) and the Bride of Frankenstein (1935), part of the original Universal horror series. Enjoyed your reaction. Thanks.

4:10 - That is Gloria Stuart, Cami, who played "Old" Rose in TITANIC. ✌️❤️

The actor who played the invisible man was Claud Rains, the same actor that was the police chief in Casablanca and the father in The Wolfman.

Claude Rains had one of the most unforgettable voices in movies. Ironic that in his first starring role you didn't actually see his face until the end.

The novel _The Invisible Man_ was published in 1897 and was very successful, as were most of Wells's novels.
Una o'Connor (the hysterical landlady) was a favorite of Universal. She is always memorable, especially in _Bride of Frankensterin._
Next you'll need to dip your feet into some of the adaptations of the novels of Jules Verne. I'd recommend the 1954 version of _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre; and Mike Todd's 1956 extravaganza Around the World in Eighty Days starring David Niven and Cantinflas (a famous Mexican comic actor), with cameos by a Who's Who of mid-century stars and a magnificent score by the great Victor Young.

He's running around naked -- _in public!_

I love this movie!!! Entertaining from start to finish. The special effects are still amazing for a 93 year old feature (kudos to special effects supervisor John Fulton) - and Una O' Connor (as Jenny the old barmaid) is hilarious!!!🤣🤣🤣

"And Claude Rains was The Invisible Man!" Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The old lady is Una O'Connor.

Skybound Comics made a four-issue prequel to the Invisible Man (1933) movie, giving you exact details on what lead Dr. Jack Griffin of becoming the Invisible Man. It's quite a good read.

This is the original screen adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. It was the horror follow up to Universal Pictures 'Dracula.' James Whale is the Director and it stars Claude Rains and Gloria Stewart. Technically, it was quite an innovative film for its time period. Universal had said there were optical effects with mirrors, shot against a completely black set with walls and floors covered in black velvet to make it non-reflective. Other effects involving props moving "by themselves" are done with wires pulled by booms or dollies. The overall budget on the effects was a whopping cost for the time of $328,033. (Source: Wiki).

Hi Cami!
H.G. Wells wrote the novel "The Invisible Man in 1897. Wells was a pioneer in science fiction. He invented the ideas of a time machine (1895), and alien invasion (1898), He also wrote many non-fiction books.

28:20 - That's Claude Rains, Cami. Tha actual actor who played the invisible man and provided his voice. In fact, Mr. Rains's distinctive voice is what helped him get the part.

It's fun to see Henry Travers, who played the would-be angel Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, in this production thirteen years earlier.

The inquisitive reporter is played by Dwight Frye, who is perhaps best remembered for playing the ill-fated Renfield in "Dracula".

I just realized that Clarence from It's A Wonderful Life is in this.

The Invisible Man was a book published in 1897, and I have read it.

I got Gloria Stuart's autograph when she turned 100 right before she died. I also have an old original photo of her holding her newborn daughter in the hospital.

God this movie is so good I can see people running out of theater going ape shit seeing him "not" be there!

When i was a kid in the 70's, they used to play a lot of these old Universal Horror films late night on weekends as well as Hammer Horror films. This was always considered a horror film and always one of my favorites because of how crazy Claude Raines was.

"A few murders here and there." YIKES! 😮 Thank you Cami!

Clarence the Angel from Its a Wonderful life in this film.

Yes, that was the actor's real voice. Claude Rains was known for his speaking voice. He was a magnificent actor, who was in many great films:
The Invisible Man
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Sea Hawk
Here Comes Mr Jordan
The Wolfman
Now Voyager
Casablanca
Passage to Marseille
Mr. Skeffington
Notorious
Lawrence of Arabia

Yes, it was a story before this. H.G. Welles. Who also wrote The Time Machine and War of the Worlds.

The invisible Man (Claude Rains) also played the Wolfman's father.

Great reaction as usual. I'm so grateful for you, because there is no one out there doing these movies from the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's that you do. Please consider watching "Plan 9 from Outer Space", traditionally considered the worst movie ever made, and then you can watch "Ed Wood" with Johnny Depp, a movie about the making of that movie. I think you would appreciate it more than most.

Before Blue screen or Green screen filmmakers used black velvet.

For the scene of the footprints in the snow, they had an elevated platform with wooden foot shaped blocks. On cue they would pull the blocks out.

I used to watch this movie and others on a program called "Creature Double Feature" which aired on my local TV affiliate every Saturday afternoon back in the late 70's and 80's. We got two classic monster movies back to back. What I wouldn't give to go back to that time.

Thanks for this one, Cami. You’d probably enjoy 1957’s The Incredible Shrinking Man. Great sci-fi flick.

this stars the voice of claude rains one of my favorite character actors. its, i believe, his first movie and his face doesn't appear until the last 10 seconds. he later co-starred in such great films as "mr smith goes to washington" (1939, co-starring jimmy stewart.), "the wolfman" and "here comes mr. jotdan" (both 1941), casablanca" (1942, co-starring humphrey bogart.), hitchcock's "notorious" (1946, co-starring cary grant), "lawrence of arabia" (1962) and others. thanks for the video.

My Favorite Claude Rains rolls: Here comes Mr. Jordan and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

There are a lot, like a huge amount, of old films that are really amazingly entertaining and worth everybody’s time. Some of my favourite old horror films besides the better known ones that (I also highly recommend) are: The Old Dark House (1932), Mad Love (1935), Werewolf of London (1935), The Devil-Doll (1936), The Lodger (1944), The Body Snatcher (1945), Dead of Night (1945), Hangover Square (1945), and, House of Wax (1953).

I’m not suggesting that you react to all those in the future - although that would be great - but it’s rather obvious that you loved The Invisible Man as soon as you were a few minutes in so I feel any of these very well done old horror films are going to be your cup of tea. Thanks for making videos eh… 🎃

That was crazy seeing a prop plane ✈in the Universal logo

In HG Welles novel, Griffin, The Invisible Man is the main character and the villain of the story.

So glad you watched this movie. It gets far too forgotten these days.

I feel like the invisible man, both the HG Wells' novel and even more so this movie, became the basic prototype of the comic book super villain. The whole madness, arrogance, genius cocktail with a science fiction chaser.

Thank you for doing reactions to the classics. Not many reactors do, and I so appreciate it. You had said in your reaction that this was like a horror movie. Well, it is a horror movie. The Invisible Man is one of the Universal Studios Monsters, along with Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. These are the horror movies that I grew up with in the '60s and '70s, and I still love them even to this day. In fact, I prefer them over the more modern horror films. Thank you again for reacting to them.

Yes, it was Claude Raines voice in the movie. He was an excellent actor.

Fun story from Claude Rain's own granddaughter: when this film came out in theatres, he took her to go and see it, it was a cold wintery day so he was bundled up in a scarf and hat like in the film. The ticket-taker recognised his voice, and refused to let him pay for the tickets, telling him that the invisible man gets to go in for free.

There is another movie "HOLLOW MAN", with Kevin Bacon. One of his lines, Its amazing what you can do when you don't have to look at yourself in the mirror. It is a good movie worth a watch.

I grew up in the 1960's watching these movies on TV.

New movies: "We're going to need a prequel trilogy to explain how he became invisible."
Old movies: "He's just invisible fam."

I love this movie. It's fairly faithful to the book in the first half but expands Griffin's village based rampage in the book into a national one. Griffin does a lot more killing in the film, though he's just as homicidally inclined in the book, it's just that he's stopped as an invisible man can only do so much against a crowd of people. The film actually takes the idea of an invisible man's reign of terror from the American early sci-fi writer Philip Wylie's book 'The Murderer Invisible'. Wylie although largely forgotten was no slouch in sci-fi, and was arreseted by the FBI in 1945 as he happened to write a sci-fi story set in 1965 about Nazi conspirators making an atomic bomb, which turned out to be remarkably close in concept and effect to what Oppenheimer and his team were attempting to build out in New Mexico!

H. G. Wells understood and liked movies, and he approved and suggested changes to his novel. He was very satisfied with the eventual release.

H. G. Wells understood and liked movies, and he approved and suggested changes to his novel. He was very satisfied with the eventual release.
H. G. Wells understood and liked movies, and he approved and suggested changes to his novel. He was very satisfied with the eventual release.

Last comment I promise! A lot of H. G. Wells early stories and short stories involve sudden surreal and violent incidents befalling small villages and sleepy suburbs. War of the Worlds practically opens with a sudden exo-skeleton armoured martian assault with heat rays on the sleepy English suburbs. A lot of this can be put down to H. G Wells early life havin to suffer a very boring job working in a shop in a sleepy English town where he did not particularly like his customers, who could be rude or annoying. As a result he liked daydreaming terrible and amusing calamities to befall on everyone around him. His short stories are not to be missed. 'The Country of the Blind' written in 1904 is a fun inversion of The Invisible Man, where a mountaineer slips and falls into an isolated valley populated entirely by blind people who have built their own little civilisation. He arrogantly feels that being the only one able to see he can rule over it, but learns to his cost that the people within who have adapted to their condition are not in any sense disabled, but fully effective.

Its a Wonderful Life Clarence Angel 2nd class is the older doctor in this movie in 1933 Its a Wonderful Life 1946.

Yes, in the original HG Wells novel, Griffin was a nasty piece of work who wanted to use his invisibility to take over the world. In fact, the original book didn't even give him the excuse of the drug driving him mad; he was apparently just evil to start with.
It wasn't until the sequels that we started toying with heroic invisible men.

The invisible man has the highest death count of any of the Classic Horror films.

This was a great choice. Claude Rains, was the body AND the voice of the Invisible Man. You've seen him in other films, probably, as he later played the corrupt police chief in "Casablanca" and the Nazi businessman who spars with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's great "Notorious." H.G. Wells, who wrote the book and came up with the concept, was still alive and had to approve the script, so it's very faithful to the novel. And yes, the concept originated with the novel. The director, James Whale, also made "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein." He was the greatest horror director ever. Gloria Stuart, the fiancee, later played Kate Winslet as an old lady in "Titanic." (I knew Gloria!) Henry Travers, the older scientist, played Clarence the angel in "It's a Wonderful Life." He's also in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt," which you would love.

hello Cami all ways one fav movie

Another great horror by legendary director James Whale. Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He also directed films in other genres, including what is considered the definitive film version of the musical Show Boat (1936)

Oh hon - of course it's a horror movie (and sci-fi) :D. This was Claude Rains' film debut and he was very upset that he would not be shown onscreen until the literal final frame but regardless it's one helluva debut - his voice alone crackles with manic intensity and even his whispering moments with Gloria Stuart resonates his theatricality as an actor. Yes the novel came before the film as it is an adaptation of HG Wells' story :D Heck you even mentioned it when you saw his name LOL Lordy. Directed by James Whale (who did FRANKENSTEIN & the first sequel THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN - both you so need to see) and setting Universal promptly as the studio producing quality genre films henceforth. The visual f/x are still astounding (for Rains they ensconced him in black velvet and then transposed one shot over another to give the illusion of his transparency). Hope you continue to explore the classics for SpookySeason and beyond Cam xoxo

I have only seen this movie once, way back in the '80s as a kid on late night tv (Might have been on the Big Chuck and Little John show [iykyk]), but it made quite an impression on me because I remember it very well. Thanks for the reaction to it, brings back good memories.

Claude Rains is great in Casablanca! Hollow Man is a good one.

Claude Raines, also did The Phantom of the Opera and he played Lon Chaney Jr's father in The Wolfman. This is definitely classed as a horror/Universal Monster movie.

Claude Rains was such a diverse actor. Often disappearing in his many characters.

Two things. Claude Rains played the invisible man, and yes, that was his famous voice. He was also in Casablanca and walks off with Humphrey Bogart at the end. He also played The Phantom of the Opera in 1943 the first color version, and he was a British officer stationed in Cairo in Lawrence of Arabia. Gloria Stewart, who played his girlfriend in Invisible Man was also the old woman in Titanic the one with Leonard Decaprio. The 1933 film is science fiction, but very scary, was the very good recent remake.

Written by H G Wells

The Invisible Man is another entry in James Whale's filmography of Gothic Horror of which I only know 3:

Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
The Bride of Frankenstein

The latter two films include bits of Whale's sardonic humor. I wish there was more of his work.

Claude Raines also played the policeman in Casablanca

I think there were a few Invisible Woman movies I think they were more like comedies than horror.

21:48 - To be fair, maybe the train track shouldn't
switch off onto a cliff. That's just bad infrastructure.

The Invisible Man is an updated version of the Ring of Gyges story from Plato’s Republic. Gyges, a poor shepherd, finds a magic ring which he can use to become invisible. Using the ring, he gains the favor of the king, seduces the queen, plots with her to murder the king and seizes the throne. The story explores the idea that people are only moral because they fear getting caught. An invisible man has no fear of being caught, and so can indulge in every crime and depravity without consequence.

I think that there were also The Invisible Dad and Invisible Mom movies from the 80s or 90s. 🤔

They specifically used Anderson's Pea Soup as the vomit. In the 90's we went to the original Anderson's plant and attached restaurant near San Diego and they actually had celebrity memorabilia and photos from the Exorcist displayed.

There's a great book on the actual possession and exorcism the novel and this film is based on, 'Possessed' by Thomas B. Allen. It includes diary entries from the priests involved.

In 2026, that reward is worth $110,000 US. Nice! 💵

The Invisible Man (1933) and the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds, two fast paced, no-nonsense, straight-forward, story driven films. They still hold-up today. 👽Great!

This is by far the best of the Universal Monster Movies!

Fantastic reaction! The director of this film, James Whale, who also directed the first Frankenstein, was ahead of his time and unpredictable in the way he developed his works.

Claude rains was inspiration for Mark hamills joker

Of all the Invisible Man films my favorite is Memoir of an Invisible Man. But this one is a true horror film.

This is my favorite Universal classic horror movie, thank you so much Cami for the reaction. It’s my favorite because the special effects are groundbreaking, Claude Rains voice is auditory crack, but also the deadliest universal horror monster is just a man: not the king of the undead (Dracula), not a cursed lykanthrope (Larry Talbot), not a cursed undead priest (Imhotep), not an abomination brought to life (Frankenstein’s creature), and not a prehistoric organism (Black Lagoon), just an insane man with an incredible power.

I heard a story that HG Wells almost didn't want this movie to be made. Basically he could see potential in film but he wasn't comfortable with his own books being adapted into films

Also the egomania he goes through in this film was only written for the film. He wasn't an egomaniac in the book

Also the role of the Invisible Man was first offered to Boris Karloff (the Frankenstein Monster) but he turned it down. Then the role was offered to Colin Clive (the guy who played Dr Frankenstein) but he turned it down too. Then finally it was offered to Claude Raines and he accepted it

This is so…refreshing Cami, thank you for taking on the classic films. I remember reading the novel as a kid then watching this around high school age on a late night weekend show called “The All Nightmare Movie” out of Savannah, Georgia. Don’t recall who the guy was but he played a different film every weekend, especially the classics like this. [if you would allow me a suggestion, I have one for the upcoming Veterans Day called “The Best Years of Our Lives”. Would really like to see your reaction to that.]

after this is The Invisible Man returns, The Invisible Woman, The Invisible Agent, The Invisible Man's revenge and Abbott and Costello Meet the invisible man

you should see the 50s version of the fly too

Dwight Frye, who played Renfield in " Dracula" was also in this film briefly.

It's amazing that when this movie was made an Austrian man in Germany was making plans for the ulimate horror story.

The actress who played Jenny, the innkeeper's wife, was played by Una O'Connor. She also played Minnie in The Bride of Frankenstein.

Claude Rains played Lawrence Talbot's father in The Wolfman.

Remember the hysterical woman played by Una O'Connor. She is in the Bride of Frankenstein.

Note that Dwight Frye is an uncredited actor in this film as a reporter. He played Renfield in Dracula.

Raines was the prefect of police who became Rick’s partner in Casablanca.

The invisible man seems like someone you wouldn't have a beer with and talk about old times

Dr. Cranley is also Clarence from - It's a Wonderful Life.