The Invisible Woman
1940  NR  COMEDY  1h 12min
CAST— John Barrymore, Virginia Bruce, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles, Oscar Homolka, Margaret Hamilton, Donald MacBride, Edward Brophy, Shemp Howard, Charles Lane, Thurston Hall
MUSIC— Frank Skinner  DIRECTOR—  A. Edward Sutherland

     What had the potential to be a classic Universal picture is in fact a pointless exercise in slapstick with zero redeeming qualities. A miscast John Barrymore plays a befuddled professor who has created a machine that renders the subject invisible. He places an ad for a willing victim to undergo the procedure. A put upon fashion model signs up… but only to carry out her own sinister agenda: she wishes to exact revenge upon her bossy employer by kicking him in the pants (shocking, huh?). After perpetrating this act of sadistic violence the model drinks, falls in love with a playboy and beats up a gaggle of gangsters (The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard among them). Though an attempt is made at comedy not even a chuckle can be found. Nothing special here.
OUR RATING— *