Review of The Invisible Man's Revenge

.....but other than that it's a decently mounted fourth sequel to THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) that starred Claude Rains as Jack Griffin. Here, Jon Hall stars as Robert Griffin (no relation) who had been left for dead in the wilds of South Africa after having led British couple Jasper Herrick (Lester Matthews) and his better half Irene Herrick (Gale Sondergaard) to a fabulous diamond mine, only for those two to leave him for dead in the jungle. Griffin winds up in a mental institution in Cape Town, but he busts out of there and murders two orderlies along the way. Griffin manages to make his way to the United Kingdom and pays a visit to Sir Jasper and Lady Irene who are checking out journalist Mark Foster (Alan Curtis), boyfriend of their adorable daughter Julie (Evelyn Ankers). After their confrontation, they drug Robert Griffin and has their butler throw his ass into a nearby river, only his life is saved by Cockney cobbler Herbert Higgins (Leon Errol). Griffin is rendered invisible by that lovable scientist Peter Drury (John Carradine) who has visions of Nobel Prizes dancing in his head. But he winds up dead at the hands of Robert Griffin. Thanks to a blood transfusion, Griffin loses his invisibility, and his life to Brutus the Wonder German Shepherd that once belonged to Dr. Drury. As this viewer mention at the beginning of the review, the visual effects were a little bit on the shaky side. And the thing was, they were supervised by John P. Fulton who had done a far better job on the INVISIBLE MAN films. My humble opinion is that somebody cut the budget way down on THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE, which might explain why Universal did not make any more of these invisibility flicks. They did make ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951). Jon Hall had also been in INVISIBLE AGENT (1942) as Frank Griffin Jr, the grandson of the original Invisible Man. He also starred opposite Maria Montez in ARABIAN NIGHTS (1942), ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (1943), WHITE SAVAGE (1943), COBRA WOMAN (1944), GYPSY WILDCAT (1944), and SUDAN (1945). Jon Hall continued his acting career during the 1950s, making movies for super-cheap producer Sam Katzman, and was in the television series RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE (1952-1954). His last film credit was THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER (1965), where he doubled as actor and director. Hall took his own life in 1979 after having been diagnosed with incurable bladder cancer. This was a pretty good film, it with a bigger budget it would have been way better. Jon Hall gave his role a pretty good shot. He made a great villain in this film. And there you have it.