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The Invisible Ray
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| The Invisible Ray | |
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| Directed by | Lambert Hillyer |
| Produced by | Edmund Grainger |
| Written by | John Colton |
| Starring | Bela Lugosi Frances Drake Frank Lawton Walter Kingsford |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Editing by | Bernard W. Burton |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  January 20, 1936 |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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The Invisible Ray is a 1936 Universal Pictures science fiction film starring Boris Karloff (credited as just Karloff) and Bela Lugosi.
A visionary doctor, Dr. Janos Rukh (Karloff) invents a telescope that can look far out into space -into Andromeda- and pick up rays of light that will show the earth's past. Looking at the past on a television-like screen, a group of assembled doctors as well as Dr. Rukh see a large meteor hit the earth thousands of years ago. Rukh convinces the doctors to go on an expedition to find the meteor that appeared to land in Africa. While in Africa, Rukh finds the meteor but is exposed to strong radiation (Radium X) from the rock. Dr. Benet (Lugosi) takes a piece of the stone back to Europe and uses the meteorite to heal people - including curing the blind. Rukh, suffering from the radiation, glows at night when not treated and is slowly losing his mind.
The film features music from film composer Franz Waxman.
- Boris Karloff as Dr. Janos Rukh (as Karloff)
- Bela Lugosi as Dr. Felix Benet
- Frances Drake as Diana Rukh
- Frank Lawton as Ronald Drake
In the Tim Burton film Ed Wood about the director of the same name, an eager stagehand approaches Lugosi and requests an autograph. Lugosi complies until the young man remarks that in The Invisible Ray, he was "great as Karloff's sidekick".
Karloff's character, Janos Rukh, may have been modeled in part after Nikola Tesla a Serbian-born inventor and scientist whose claims about inventing a "death ray" in 1934 were widely circulated and exaggerated by the press.
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