When Drake uses binoculars to view what is left of ground zero for the lab explosion, the perspective of what he is seeing through the binoculars changes four times (one of the views is from ground up at a man in a fallout suit), all of which are technically impossible from his vantage point.
Looking through the lens of the 1960's, there are some pretty interesting special effects for the day. It would've been easy to just show the effects of an invisible person in a low budget way, but took the extra steps to give a visual appeal to the film to back up the pseudo-science explanation.
When it comes to The Amazing Transparent Man, it, sort of, goes like this - "Now you see him - Now you don't"... And, with that in mind, I'm tellin' ya - It was definitely when I "didn't" see him, yeah, that was when he became a lot more tolerable to watch.
A crazed scientist (Ivan Trisault) invents an invisibility formula. An Army major (James Griffith) plans to use the formula to create an army of invisible zombies.
Krenner, a bitter ex-army officer (James Griffith) helps a safe-cracker (Douglas Kennedy) escape from jail as part of a plan to steal the radioactive material he needs to generate an invisible army. The film is a short (under one hour) bargain-basement quickie directed by Edgar G.
"The Amazing Transparent Man" is relatively competently made, I suppose, for a rushed B-picture production, although some of the editing is especially bad (a scene by a locked door and the binocular point-of-views, e.g.
Here's a scheme that could have done with just a little more thought: help professional safe-cracker Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) to bust out of prison, force desperate scientist Dr. Peter Ulof (Ivan Triesault) to turn the thief invisible, and then send him to steal enough radium to create an entire army of undetectable soldiers.
The clue in on the opening slide - it's a drive-in flick and so long as you remember that, then it will explain why this derivative rip-off is quite so bad. A soldier with a screw loose has arranged for the escape of a safe-cracker to help him create an army of invisible zombies - thanks to a professor whose daughter he has kidnapped and who has devised a magical invisibility formula..
Fans of the cult director Edgar G. Ulmer may consider this routine, forgettable, but adequately entertaining sci-fi feature to be one of his lesser efforts.
The notorious safecracker Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from the state prison and Laura Matson (Marguerite Chapman) drives the getaway car. They head to an isolated farm where the deranged Major Paul Krenner (James Griffith) has a laboratory.
