Review of Invisible Enemy

On the verge of world war once again, Europe is already infested with spies and enemy agents with nefarious plans, and they aren't just Italian or German. In this case, the villain is right out in the open, a ruthless Russian industrialist (C. Henry Gordon in another one dimensional bad guy part), and Englishman Alan Marshal is sent to Paris to prevent Gordon from getting his hands on some valuable oil fields. Ironically, Marshal was once involved with Gordon's wife (Tala Birell, as close to Natasha as you're going to get here), and when Gordon realizes what Marshal's up to both business wise and personally, he marks him for death by creating a dining room electric chair in order to dispatch him. But Marshal hires cockney British sergeant Herbert Mundin to act as his valet, and for a while it appears that Bullwinkle has arrived to undermine the Russian bad guys. It all sounds thrilling, but other than Mundin's eccentric performance, it is extremely boring. Dwight Frye has a brief role as an evil chauffeur, while Elsa Buchanan adds comic relief to Mundin's valet as a flirtatious maid of Scottish descent whom Mundin mistakes for being French. Even though this is just under an hour, it drags due to its convoluted plot, wrapping itself up with some silly resolutions which made me wonder, why even do it at all since it truly has no point. Marshal is an acceptable hero, but Birell is boring as the heroine and Mady Correll has an uninteresting part as a dress shop owner also in love with Marshal.