The Invisible Man (1933)

On a snowy night, a stranger with his face swathed in bandages
and his eyes obscured by dark goggles, takes a room at The Lion's
Head Inn in the English village of Iping in Sussex. The man
demands that he be left alone. Later, the innkeeper, Mr. Hall, is
sent by his wife to evict the stranger after the stranger has
made a huge mess in his room while doing research and has fallen
behind in his rent. Angered, the stranger throws Mr. Hall down
the stairs. Confronted by a policeman and some local villagers,
he removes his bandages and goggles, revealing that he is
invisible. Laughing maniacally, he takes off his clothes, making
himself completely undetectable, and drives off his tormenters
before fleeing into the countryside.


The stranger is Dr. Jack Griffin, a chemist who discovered the
secret of invisibility while conducting a series of tests
involving an obscure drug called monocane. Flora Cranley,
Griffin's fiancée and the daughter of Griffin's employer, Dr.
Cranley, becomes distraught over Griffin's long absence. Cranley
and his other assistant, Dr. Kemp, search Griffin's empty
laboratory, finding only a single note in a cupboard. Cranley
becomes concerned when he reads it. On the note is a list of
chemicals, including monocane, which Cranley knows is extremely
dangerous; an injection of it drove a dog mad in Germany.
Griffin, it seems, is unaware of this. Cranley deduces that he
may have learned about monocane in English books printed before
the incident that describe only its bleaching power.


On the evening of his escape from the inn, Griffin turns up at
Kemp's home. He forces Kemp to become his visible partner in a
plot to dominate the world through a reign of terror, commencing
with "a few murders here and there." They drive back to the inn
to retrieve his notebooks on the invisibility process. Sneaking
inside, Griffin finds a police inquiry underway, conducted by an
official who believes that it is all a hoax. After securing his
books, Griffin angrily attacks and kills the officer.


Back home, Kemp calls first Cranley, asking for help, and then
the police. Flora persuades her father to let her come along. In
her presence, Griffin becomes more placid and calls her
"darling." When he realizes that Kemp has betrayed him, his first
reaction is to get Flora away from danger. After promising Kemp
that at 10 o'clock the next night he will murder him, Griffin
escapes and goes on a killing spree. He causes the derailment of
a train, resulting in a hundred deaths, and throws two volunteer
searchers off a cliff. The police offer a reward for anyone who
can think of a way to catch him.


The chief detective in charge of the search uses Kemp as bait,
feeling that Griffin will try to fulfill his promise, and devises
various clever traps. At Kemp's insistence, the police disguise
him in a police uniform and let him drive his car away from his
house. Griffin, however, is hiding in the back seat of the car.
He overpowers Kemp and ties him up in the front seat. Griffin
then sends the car down a steep hill and over a cliff, where it
explodes on impact.


Griffin seeks shelter from a snowstorm in a barn. A farmer hears
snoring and sees the hay, in which Griffin is sleeping, moving.
The man notifies the police. The police surround the building and
set fire to the barn. When Griffin comes out, the chief detective
sees his footprints in the snow and opens fire, mortally wounding
him. Griffin is taken to the hospital where, on his deathbed, he
admits to Flora that "I meddled in things that man must leave
alone." As he dies, his body gradually becomes visible again.
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