Tonight’s movie watching
Jul. 22nd, 2022 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivdunstanTonight we managed to watch the entirety (!) of The Invisible Man from 1933 starring Claude Rains. It is a movie version of the original HG Wells story. We had recorded this to watch from the Horror movies channel on Halloween last year.
The film was very impressive, with dynamic direction and very impressive special effects. Especially bearing in mind when it was made. On the downside the main character is thoroughly unlikeable, and a more interesting film would give him a more sympathetic twist. But I guess the version shown is probably more true to the original source material. The acting was generally good, apart from the histrionics of the innkeeper lady! The cast was largely British and Irish, with some Americans, including the female lead Gloria Stuart.
The film was very impressive, with dynamic direction and very impressive special effects. Especially bearing in mind when it was made. On the downside the main character is thoroughly unlikeable, and a more interesting film would give him a more sympathetic twist. But I guess the version shown is probably more true to the original source material. The acting was generally good, apart from the histrionics of the innkeeper lady! The cast was largely British and Irish, with some Americans, including the female lead Gloria Stuart.