James Whale has gleeful fun in Griffen’s manic cavortings through the town, stealing bicycles, smashing windows and joyously running rings around cops while only wearing a shirt.
Wells’s plot, which is the problem that Wells seemed to have with the film.Ĭlaude Rains, who in most other roles seemed stiff-necked, gets into full flight as Griffen, playing the role with an exuberant burlesque and an hilariously barbed waspishness. Whale’s customarily eccentric humour is allowed loose on H.G. Bride of Frankenstein is generally considered James Whale’s all-time classic, although this author has a strong preference for The Invisible Man as Whale’s undeclared masterpiece. The Invisible Man was directed by the perpetually unconventional James Whale, who had just made the classic Boris Karloff version of Frankenstein (1931) and would next go onto the fan favourite of Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Wells’s dry and humourless, nevertheless fascinating, narrative into an eccentrically likable film. That aside, The Invisible Man is one of the few times when a film improves upon a book. Wells was not at all happy with this adaptation of his popular novel The Invisible Man (1897).
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