The Amazing Transparent Man

The Amazing Transparent Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEdgar G. Ulmer
Screenplay byJack Lewis[1]
Produced byLester Guthrie[1]
Starring
CinematographyMeredith M. Nicholson[1]
Edited byJack Ruggiero[1]
Music byDarrell Calker[1]
Production
company
Miller Consolidated Pictures[1]
Distributed byMCP Film Distributing Co.
Release date
  • February 1960 (1960-02)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish

The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 American science fiction thriller B-movie starring Marguerite Chapman in her final feature film. The plot follows an insane ex–U.S. Army major who uses an escaped criminal to steal materials to improve the invisibility machine his scientist prisoner made.[2] It was one of two sci-fi films shot back-to-back in Dallas, Texas by director Edgar G. Ulmer (the other was Beyond the Time Barrier, also released that same year).[3] The combined filming schedule for both films was only two weeks. The film was later featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "The Amazing Transparent Man". American Film Institute. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Booker, M. Keith (2001). Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War: American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 154–156. ISBN 0-313-31873-5.
  3. ^ Weaver, Tom (2002). Science fiction confidential: interviews with 23 monster stars and film makers. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 0-7864-1175-9.