ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

PodBill Just what I expected

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Woodyanders Eccentric scientist Dr. Drury (a nicely quirky and lively portrayal by John Carradine) tests his in visibility formula on wanted fugitive Robert Griffin (a solid performance by Jon Hall), who uses his newfound invisible status to get revenge on his former friends who cheated him out of a fortune in diamonds.Director Ford Beebe relates the engrossing story at a quick pace, maintains a generally serious tone throughout, and further spices things up with amusing moments of amiable humor, with an inspired darts game sequence rating as the definite comic highlight. Moreover, it's acted with zest by an able cast: Leon Errol as hearty old rascal Herbert, Alan Curtis as snoopy reporter Mark Foster, Evelyn Ankers as the sweet Julie Herrick, Gale Sondergaard as the duplicitous Irene, Lester Matthews as shady nobleman Sir Jasper, and Halliwell Hobbes as fussy butler Cleghorn. The special effects run hot and cold. Both Milton R. Krashner's moody cinematography and Hans J. Salter's robust score are up to par. An entertaining movie.

Rainey Dawn To me this is one of the best films in The Invisible Man series. This 5th film is more in the vein or spirit of the first two films: Invisible Man (1933) and The Invisible Man Returns (1940). This 5th film "Revenge" has a feeling of being the Invisible Man again. The Invisible Woman (1940) was a cute comedy while Invisible Agent (1942) focus was on war.Like the first two films, The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) is a sci-fi horror peppered with comedy. I highly enjoyed this particular installment of the "family" of Invisible films.The Invisible Bird and Dog in home of Doctor Peter Drury are fun. The Invisible Man himself, Robert Griffin, is quite mad and twisted as Dr. Jack Griffin and Geoffrey Radcliffe."Revenge" is worth watching - and, to me, an underrated film in the series.9/10

MartinHafer I think it is possible that I liked this film even more than I would have because the night before I'd watched the previous installment in the Invisible Man franchise--THE INVISIBLE AGENT. THE INVISIBLE AGENT was such a remarkably bad film that by comparison, THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE looks brilliant--even though I realize it's just a B-movie and not much more.The film begins with a maniac escaping from a mental hospital. It seemed that he killed three men in the process and is not about to let himself be captured. While he's psychotic, he also seems reasonably rational at first. Because of this, he's not easy to spot. Plus, some of what he thinks and does makes sense. For example, he tracks down an old business partner to demand his rightful share of a fortune in diamonds. However, the partner blew much of the money due to bad investments and so the maniac demands EVERYTHING--including the partner's daughter! Well, the partner and his wife are naturally aghast and soon throw him out--that is, after they take the partnership paper away from the maniac.Later, a nice but wacky scientist (Robert Carradine) finds the crazy guy and offers to let him be the first human to try out his invisibility formula. Little does Carradine know that this will unleash a madman's reign of terror. Oddly, this is a reversal of the plot of the original INVISIBLE MAN (1933), as it was the formula that made the man paranoid and murder-hungry.While the special effects and story aren't nearly of the level of the original INVISIBLE MAN, it is very interesting and worth watching. I do agree with another reviewer who complained that it was hard to like anyone in the film. Making some of the characters a bit more sympathetic might have improved the film a bit. Still, a nice time-passer and a film light-years better than the previous invisible film.

bkoganbing A rather weak and confusing script makes The Invisible Man's Revenge not nearly up to the standard set by the first Invisible Man film and the stylish performance of Claude Rains as the scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and its trap.Our invisible protagonist in this film is Jon Hall who has come over to Great Britain from South Africa in the belief that Lester Matthews and Gale Sondergaard cheated him out of his half share of a diamond mine. Let's say that their actions don't allay his suspicions and Hall gets quite the bum's rush out of their house.Alone and paranoid Hall stumbles on scientist John Carradine who's been working on the matter of invisibility. He offers himself as a guinea pig to Carradine and of course Carradine sees Nobel Prize in his future.Of course Hall has other plans to use the invisibility as a method of revenge. He also considers an alternative to killing and stealing from Matthews and Sondergaard. Hall gets one look at their lovely daughter, Evelyn Ankers, and decides it might be easier to marry the fortune. That is if he can get rid of her boyfriend Alan Curtis.The motivations of these characters is quite confusing at times, you're not quite sure who to root for. Even in the end, someone had a marvelous idea for the Invisible Man to get his comeuppance involving man's best friend and blew it in the execution.One very interesting performance in the film is Leon Errol, away from the comic parts he usually had. He's still got some funny moments, but he's also a blackmailing scoundrel as well.The Invisible Man's Revenge is far from the best in the series. Even Abbott&Costello's film with them ranks better than this.