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...leering talents of John Barrymore: he is a scampish scientist with a contraption for making people invisible. However, the story rapidly runs out of breath, thereafter staggers through a plodding plot about a fatuous young moneybags (John Howard) who is inexplicably attracted to the unseen subject of the Barrymorian experiments (Virginia Bruce). Added but unnecessary wrinkles are furnished by eyebrowed Oscar Homolka, a gangster who steals Barrymore's machine for nefarious purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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