History Film / TheInvisibleMan1933

* YouFool: Griffin's favorite insult, as he refers to Jaffers' group as "fools" when asking them "Are you satisfied now, you fools?!" and Kemp is subjected to being called "You Fool!" multiple times.

* StockFootage: The car and train crashes - both extremely well-executed model shots - were reused in a number of other Universal productions.

--> "An invisible man can rule the world. No one will see him come, no one will see him go. He can hear every secret. He can rob, and wreck, and ''kill''!"

* MoodWhiplash: A comedic scene where the Invisible Man chases the Iping villagers out of the pub ends with him suddenly murdering the police inspector by bashing his head in with a stool.

%%* HairTriggerTemper: Griffin.

* RunawayTrain: Griffin has the highest amount of deaths caused out of all the Universal Monsters, due to a train wreck he causes that sends the train off a cliff and kills a hundred people.

From this point on, the story follows the invisible man's trail of destruction and terror across the land as he attempts to either find a cure for his condition or take over the country (whichever is more likely). He is eventually discovered to be a scientist named Griffin, who was engaging in some illicit experiments. His old girlfriend Flora is played by Creator/GloriaStuart, 64 years before Stuart starred as the old Rose in ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''.

One snowy night, a mysterious stranger (Rains), his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark goggles, comes to a sleepy English town and books himself a room at the local inn. The stranger is not interested in interacting with the locals, demanding to be left alone and isolating himself in his room, but he quickly becomes the talk of the town as it becomes evident that he conducts strange scientific experiments behind the closed doors. Eventually the stranger falls behind on his rent, and after one of his experiments makes a mess of the room, the innkeeper is finally fed up with his weird behavior and tries to kick him out, only to be beaten up and thrown out by the man instead. This altercation attracts the attention of the local police constable, who gathers some villagers as backup in an attempt to take the stranger into custody. Far from intimated by this, the stranger starts laughing maniacally at his would-be captors, and takes off his goggles and bandages before the astonished eyes of the gathered men, revealing himself to be completely invisible underneath them.

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[[caption-width-right:350: He may not look it, but this man is one of the most dangerous Universal Monsters of all time.]]

A remake of the film, which was to star Creator/JohnnyDepp in the title role, was tentatively planned for Universal's Film/DarkUniverse, but shelved indefinitely after ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'''s poor performance at the box office effectively scrapped future plans for that franchise. It was later announced that [[Film/TheInvisibleMan2020 the remake]] would instead produced as a standalone film in conjunction with Creator/{{Blumhouse|Productions}}, to be directed by Leigh Whannell (''Film/{{Upgrade}}''). In this version of the story, Cecilia (Creator/ElisabethMoss) is the protagonist, while the title character (Creator/OliverJacksonCohen) is the antagonist.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Quoth Website/TheOtherWiki:
-->The film portrays Griffin more sympathetically than does the novel. The novel's Griffin is callous and cruel from the beginning, and only pursues the experiment for wealth and his ego. The movie shows Griffin as an honorable man who is misguided. His insanity is purely a side-effect of the invisibility drug, and his motivation for the experiment was a misguided desire to do good for science and mankind, born primarily out of his love for his fiancée.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Quoth Wiki/TheOtherWiki:

--> "An invisible man can rule the world. No one will see him come, no one will see him go. He can hear every secret. He can rob, and rape, and ''kill''!"

One snowy night, a mysterious stranger (Rains), his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark goggles, comes to a sleepy English town and books himself a room at the local inn. The stranger is not interested in interacting with the locals, demanding to be left alone and isolating himself in his room, but he quickly becomes the talk of the town as it becomes evident that he conducts strange scientific experiments behind the closed doors. Eventually the stranger falls behind on his rent, and after one of his experiments makes a mess of the room, the innkeeper is finally fed up with his weird behavior and tries to kick him out, only to be beaten up and thrown out by the man instead. This altercation attracts the attention of the local police constable, who gathers some villagers as backup in an attempt to take the man into custody. Far from intimated by this, the stranger starts laughing maniacally at his would-be captors, and takes off his goggles and bandages before the astonished eyes of the gathered men, revealing himself to be completely invisible underneath them.

On a snowy night, a mysterious stranger (Rains), his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark goggles, comes to a sleepy English town and lodges himself a room at the local inn. The stranger is not very interested in interacting with the locals, demanding to be left alone and isolates himself in his room, but he quickly becomes the talk of the town as it becomes evident that he conducts strange scientific experiments behind the closed doors. Eventually the stranger starts falling behind on his rent, and when one of his experiments makes a mess of the room, the inn keeper is finally fed up with his weird behaviour, and tries to kick the man out, only to be beaten up and thrown out by the man instead. The altercation attracts the attention of the local police constable, who gathers some villagers as backup in an attempt to take the man into custody. Far from intimated by this, the stranger starts laughing maniacally at his would-be captors, and takes off his goggles and bandages before the astonished eyes of the gathered men, revealing himself to be completely invisible underneath them.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Quoth Wiki/TheOtherWiki:

From this point on, the story follows the invisible man's trail of destruction and terror across the land as he attempts to either find a cure for his condition or take over the country (whichever is more likely). He is eventually discovered to be a scientist named Griffin, who was engaging in some illicit experiments. His old girlfriend Flora is played by Gloria Stuart, 64 years before Stuart starred as the old Rose in ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''.

* EverybodyHasStandards: Flora may be alone and without her boyfriend Griffin. But when Kemp tries to tempt her with the notion that he loves her more than her absent boyfriend, she is disgusted at him for what he's trying to do.

On a snowy night, a mysterious stranger (Rains), his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark goggles, comes to a sleepy English town and lodges himself a room at the local inn. The stranger is not very interested in interacting with the locals, demanding to be left alone and isolates himself in his room, but he quickly becomes the talk of the town as it becomes evident that he conducts strange scientific experiments behind the closed doors. Eventually the stranger starts falling behind on his rent, and when one of his experiments makes a mess of the room, the inn keeper is finally fed up with his weird behaviour, and tries to kick the man out, only to be beaten up and thrown out by the man instead. The altercation attracts the attention of the local police constable, who gathers some villagers as backup in an attempt to take the man into custody. Far from intimated by this, the stranger starts laughing manically at his would-be captors, and takes off his goggles and bandages before the astonished eyes of the gathered men, revealing himself to be completely invisible underneath them.

* AdaptationExpansion: The subplot with Griffin's girlfriend Flora was created for the film.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dr. Kemp, who survived in the novel and goes off of a cliff in a car here.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Averted, in this case. It is said that the essential ingredient of the invisibility serum is what causes the insanity.

%%* AxCrazy: Griffin.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Kemp.]] Griffin even calls him one as his escape attempt fails, right before Griffin sends his car over a cliff.

* WrongGenreSavvy: When Constable Jaffers sees a naked Griffin opening the window, he assumes that Griffin is trying to escape through the window. Instead, Griffin was baiting Jaffers, and easily kills him once he gets close.