Movie: "The Invisible Ray"
| Release Date: | Feb 1949 |
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| Genres: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller |
| Runtime: | 80 min. |
| Cast: | Boris Karloff (Dr. Janos Rukh), Bela Lugosi (Dr. Felix Benet), Frances Drake (Diane Rukh) Frank Lawton (Ronald Drake) Violet Kemble Cooper (Mother Rukh) Walter Kingsford (Sir Francis Stevens) Beulah Bondi (Lady Arabella Stevens) Frank Reicher (Professor Meiklejohn) Paul Weigel (Monsieur Noyer) Georges Renavent (Chief of the Surete (as Georges...) Ernie Adams (Bit Part (uncredited)) Ricca Allen (Bystander (uncredited)) Charles Bastin (French Newsboy (uncredited)) May Beatty (Mme. LeGrand (uncredited)) Ted Billings (Counterman (uncredited)) Ernest Bowern (French Newsboy (uncredited)) Helen Brown (The Blind Girl's Mother...) Daisy Bufford (Mother of Infant (uncredited)) André Cheron (Surete Official Checking Names...) Alex Chivra (Cook (uncredited)) Ann Marie Conte (The Blind Girl (uncredited)) Edwards Davis (Scientist (uncredited)) Jean De Briac (Gendarme (uncredited)) Dudley Dickerson (Safari Member (uncredited)) Charles Fallon (Gentleman (uncredited)) Constant Franke (Police Detective (uncredited)) Clarence Gordon (Porter and Servant (uncredited)) Robert Graves (Gendarme (uncredited)) Winter Hall (The Minister (uncredited)) Daniel L. Haynes (Rukh's Head Bearer (uncredited)) Isabel La Mal (Bystander (uncredited)) Alphonse Martell (Surete Official Checking Names...) Francisco Marán (Gendarme (uncredited)) Paul McAllister (Papa LaCosta (uncredited)) Etta McDaniel (Diane's Safari Attendant...) Walter Miller (The Derelict (uncredited)) Edward Reinach (Scientist (uncredited)) Hans Schumm (The Clinic Valet (uncredited)) Ynez Seabury (Celeste - a Maid (uncredited)) Adele St. Mauer (Mme. Noyer (uncredited)) Lawrence Stewart (The Runner-boy (uncredited)) Fred 'Snowflake' Toones (Native Who First Sees Rukh Glow...) Ray Turner (Bearer with Geiger Counter (uncredited)) Lucio Villegas (Pierre - a Butler (uncredited)) Nydia Westman (Briggs - a Maid (uncredited)) Lloyd Whitlock (Scientist (uncredited)) |
Storyline: The scientist Janos Rukh has been expelled from the scientific community due to the lack of credibility in his researches. Living isolated in a castle with his blind mother and his wife Diane, he makes a private presentation of the recently discovered invisible ray to his colleague Dr. Felix Benet, and succeeds in being sponsored by Sir Francis Stevens and his wife Lady Arabella Stevens in an expedition to Nigeria, where he believe he could find a meteor with Radium X. Once in Africa, Janos leaves the expedition alone and finds the meteor, but is exposed to its radiation, acquiring a deadly touch that immediately kills anyone who is touched by him. Meanwhile, Diane falls in love for the son of Lady Arabella, Ronald Drake. Dr. Benet finds an antidote to control the effects of the radiation in Janos to be daily injected, but advises that the side effect could bring madness to him. Dr. Benet returns to Paris and steals the findings of Janos, exposing and using Janos's researches to the scientific community, while the deranged Janos seeks revenge against those that have betrayed him.
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