Invisible Agent (1942)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1942
Running Times: 79 mins 81 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Frank Lloyd Productions / Universal Pictures
Producer: Frank Lloyd
Associate Producer: George Waggner

SCRIPT
Script: Curtis Siodmak
Novel: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

DIRECTION
Director: Edwin L. Marin

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Les White

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Edward Curtiss

MUSIC
Musical Director: H.J. Salter
Music: Richard Hageman (uncredited), Hans J. Salter (uncredited), Frank Skinner (uncredited)

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Vera West

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: John P. Fulton

CAST
Ilona Massey (Maria Sorenson)
Jon Hall (Frank Raymond)
Peter Lorre (Baron Ikito)
Cedric Hardwicke (Conrad Stauffer)
J. Edward Bromberg (Karl Heiser)
Albert Basserman (Arnold Schmidt)
John Litel (John Gardiner)
Holmes Herbert (Sir Alfred Spencer)
Keye Luke (surgeon)
Swen Hugo Borg (German captain - uncredited)
Paul Bryar, Charles Flynn, John Merton, Phil Warren (German soldiers - uncredited)
John Burton (RAF flier - uncredited)
Lane Chandler, Donald Curtis, Duke York (German sentries - uncredited)
Mabel Colcord (maid - uncredited)
James Craven (ship's radio man - uncredited)
Leslie Denison (British radio operator - uncredited)
Eddie Dunn, Hans Schumm, Philip Van Zandt (SS men - uncredited)
Martin Faust, Matt Willis (Nazi assassins - uncredited)
Lee Tung Foo (General Chin Lee - uncredited)
Henry Guttman, William Pagan, Victor Zimmerman (stormtroopers - uncredited)
Bobby Hale, Wally Scott (English Tommies - uncredited)
John Holland (Spencer's secretary - uncredited)
Patrick McVey (German - uncredited)
Alberto Morin (free Frenchman - uncredited)
Ferdinand Munier (bartender - uncredited)
Charles Regan (ordnance car driver - uncredited)
Otto Reichow, William Ruhl (Gestao agents - uncredited)
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (German telephone operator - uncredited)
Lee Shumway (Brigadier - uncredited)
Milburn Stone (German Sergeant - uncredited)
Walter Tetley (newsboy - uncredited)
Michael Visaroff (Verichen - uncredited)
Pat West (German taxi driver - uncredited)
Wolfgang Zilzer (Von Porten - uncredited)
Henry Zynda (Colonel Kelenski - uncredited)

Frank Raymond, the grandson of the first Invisible Man, seeks to protect the formula even from the Allied military powers who believe that it will aid the war effort. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, he volunteers to take the formula and go on a secret mission in Germany to uncover Hitler's plans.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
Video Distributor: MCA Universal

1942
July
11: Copyrighted in the USA

August
7: USA - theatrical release

1950
September
22: Denmark - theatrical release

SEQUEL TO
The Invisible Man (1933)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Coming Soon (1982)

MAGAZINES

The Dark Side 66 p.25
credits, review

TV Times 26 August - 1 September 1989 p.22
review

Video Watchdog 20 pp.12-13
review

BOOKS

Universal Horrors
credits, illustrated review by Michael Brunas, John Brunas and Tom Weaver

invisibility, nazis, scientists

Last Updated: 26 August, 2009