Comedy about an invisible man.Comedy about an invisible man.Comedy about an invisible man.
Ivan F. Simpson
- Dean Claxton
- (as Ivan Simpson)
Tod Andrews
- Bill
- (as Michael Ames)
William Hopper
- Terrence Abbott
- (as DeWolf Hopper)
Sidney Bracey
- Barrett
- (as Sidney Bracy)
Leah Baird
- Rest Home Nurse
- (uncredited)
Mary Brodel
- Norah
- (uncredited)
Romaine Callender
- Prof. Barkley
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFeature film debut of Natalie Schafer, best remembered as Mrs. Howell on Gilligan's Island (1964).
- GoofsWhen Christine faints in the doorway of her bedroom, a hand can be seen briefly appearing behind her to catch her as she falls.
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A real nutty kind of film
The casting of Edward Everett Horton as a nutty professor is reason enough to
watch The Body Disappears. Horton has been experimenting at the small
college he teaches with both invisibility and resurrection.
He and his trusted assistant Willie Best steal Jeffrey Lynn's body from the morgue and bring it back to Horton's laboratory at home. Lynn isn't dead, just completely ossified from his batchelor party and his buds thought it would be fun to have him wake up at the morgue.
Horton gives the invisibility potion to Lynn instead of his experimental resurrection concoction and Lynn goes invisible like Claude Rains. Also like a monkey that he had tried it on earlier who escapes.
Meanwhile when he leaves his bride Marguerite Chapman at the altar a manhunt starts for him with the suspicion of foul play in the air.
The Body Disappears is a nice item from the B picture unit at Warner Brothers with none of their big box office stars. Jane Wyman who plays Horton's daughter falls for Lynn invisible though he may be. Lynn has a good line of patter that gets her.
This one really is Horton's film and it is nice to see him carry a film for once as brilliant as he in support.
He and his trusted assistant Willie Best steal Jeffrey Lynn's body from the morgue and bring it back to Horton's laboratory at home. Lynn isn't dead, just completely ossified from his batchelor party and his buds thought it would be fun to have him wake up at the morgue.
Horton gives the invisibility potion to Lynn instead of his experimental resurrection concoction and Lynn goes invisible like Claude Rains. Also like a monkey that he had tried it on earlier who escapes.
Meanwhile when he leaves his bride Marguerite Chapman at the altar a manhunt starts for him with the suspicion of foul play in the air.
The Body Disappears is a nice item from the B picture unit at Warner Brothers with none of their big box office stars. Jane Wyman who plays Horton's daughter falls for Lynn invisible though he may be. Lynn has a good line of patter that gets her.
This one really is Horton's film and it is nice to see him carry a film for once as brilliant as he in support.
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- Jan 16, 2019
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- The Black Widow
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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