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Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life

Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle

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Noting the pervasiveness of the adoption of "responsibility" as a core ideal of neoliberal...

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Invisible Ray (1936) in Movies

Oct 23, 2020

The Invisible Ray (1936)

1936 | Classics, Horror, Mystery

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The Invisible Ray- is a good sci-fi horror mystery film.

The plot: The film concerns a scientist who creates a telescope-like device that captures light waves from the Andromeda Galaxy, giving him a way to view the distant past. Using this knowledge, he travels to Africa to locate a large, unusual meteorite that fell there a billion years earlier. He discovers that the meteorite is composed of a poisonous unknown element, "Radium X". After exposure to its rays begins to make him glow in the dark, his touch becomes deadly, and he begins to be slowly driven mad.

Prior to production, Universal Pictures was originally developing the film Bluebeard for Karloff and Lugosi. When that production did not start, Universal wanted a release by the end of 1935 with Karloff and Lugosi and hired director Stuart Walker and screenwriter John Colton to make the film The Invisible Ray.

The film was initially given a budget of $166,875, an amount described in the book Universal Horrors as "a fairly lavish budget" for an "upper-class B" film. Filming began on September 17, 1935. Filming concluded on October 25 which was over-schedule and $68,000 over-budget.

Its a classic and a good horror film.