It is a good example of doing the best with what you have. Cheap doesn't mean bad and as many a modern movie has shown having all the money in the world doesn't mean good. I am always impressed with what SFX people in the early days of cinema could achieve without computers.
This is why those type of effects are my favourite. I love learning about the tricks and ingenuity that goes into making them. Plus they just look better than cgi to me.
Gun nut to the rescue! I think those were supposed to be water-cooled machine guns, not gatling guns. Edit: if I remember correctly, those are gas-powered mock-ups: they used gas to give the impression of shooting because real guns and blanks were too expensive, or forbidden.
it is probably a real Vickers or Maxim with no barrel or trigger assembly only the shroud and body, with a blowtorch in the shroud; the fire flares up but never stops burning.
My aim is to create an army, you understand, an entire army of them. - Uhm; you couldn't handle ONE invisible man. He really hasn't thought this through very well has he?
I actually saw this in the thretre as a kid on Saturday matinee with Abbot and Catello meets the mummy. in 1960. Only kids were allowed in to see the film. Our parents would drop us off and then go home to create my baby sister lol
The photographic effects are actually credited to Howard A. Anderson Co., Roger George was responsible for the physical on-set effects like floating objects on wires etc., whereas the rotoscoped optical effects of the invisibility process were created by the Photographic Effects company.
I wanted to say that it's a Maxim and not a Gatling, but I can forgive Cecil pretty much anything from the get go and today he gets a double of that for a stellar use of "Windowlicker" by Aphex Twin. This track needs more love, and the music video too. It's terrifying and hilarious rolled into crazy.
I was going to write the same thing that it's a Maxim Gun, the world's first fully automatic machine gun, made in the late 19th century and shockingly still sees use today.
0:20 "Gatling guns!" Cecil, Cecil. Those are Maxim or Hotchkiss machine guns, used extensively during World War I. That's a water reservoir for cooling, not extra barrels.
Trying to inform so don't bite my head off but that is not a Gatling gun (it does not have multiple barrels). It's probably a water cooled machine gun, possibly a Maxim gun.
Nice to see Effects man Roger George mentioned. I knew Roger pretty well back in the day. He was on most of the low budget Corman films I worked on. He used to let me help him rig gags for the set. Taught me a lot a basic on set effects
Nice to see new material. I remember that I've found Your channel during my times in Netherlands (around 7-8 years ago). I loved it then, I love it now. I love that quality and humour never dropped even a little bit.
I found this channel during the early months of the Winnie the Pooh Flu. A very fun way to kill time. With this, Fanboy Flicks and The Critical Drinker, I got to enjoy lots of informid movie-crapping
@@MegaDcmp I love all of those channels, but tell me you also watch the Mecca of them all, RedLetterMedia. if you're a gamer (or even if you're not) I highly recommend a fella named Civvie11 on YT. He's got the goods.
In fact, Civvie11 reviews both DOOM movies, and the Max Payne movie. I think that's what got me into him. The latter review is one of my top favorite movie reviews online, next to Plinkett's "Ghostbusters" and Mark Kermode reviewing the "Entourage" movie.
Great job on the review, Cecil. I agree that for a movie shot in five days, it does look impressive. Also, kudos for the "five fingers say to the face". I gotta remember that one.
I asked a gun nut about the type of ammunition required to "rip out your spine and roll it up like a ball of string", and was told "thirty thirty". Now, I know that's a real ammo type, but I was previously unaware of such effects. I'm off to the gun store to buy all the "thirty thirties"!!!
I laughed out loud at the summary of the film given! 😆😆. This film is barely an hour long & still better than many 2 or 3 hour films that I've set through. What part of Texas was this filmed in? I'm really looking forward to that Edgar G. Ulmer career retrospective, you got planned. Make sure to mention his 1965 film "the cavern". That's my favorite Edgar G. Ulmer flick.
Another old movie that ends with a message to the audience. Classic trope of the time. Probably the most famous and well executed would be the "Keep watching the skies" speech from The Thing From Another World, but there's plenty that are hammier and more preachy. But in showing Roger George's credits, you showed the poster for Repo Man. Now THERE'S a WTF movie ripe for showcasing on your channel!
Combination of genres and using broad genres like fantasy or sci-fi as a springboard for other genres like mystery or horror is always interesting. That's the thought process that led Asimov to write his Robot series, he wanted to do a sci-fi murder mystery.
2:56 this would be about the time Mike Bracken would have Danny say "Hell yeah!" 5:05 it's all about the message, Cecil. Faust (really?) was telling him "pay me more or it's _curtains_ for ya!" 11:56 so, what you're saying is... just as the movie starts to wear out it's welcome.. it _disappears?_
Can't wait for his first Exploring video from the 30s. There were no production troubles that led him to the director's downfall. It's the thing that quite shocked Hollywood and Universal.
Back to the MST3k stockpile? I'm not complaining, seeing if the title doesn't include the words "Space" or "Mutiny" people tend to go "Huh? I never heard of that one." Manos? That one references itself, I never include it.
When I was transparent I kidnapped a hippo, went to the grocery store and stole all the smoked sausage. Then I robbed a bank. I was only caught b/c the hippo squealed. Turns out he was an undercover officer and it was a set up. I got off on entrapment.
ackchyually those were either 1917 Browning machine guns or Lewis guns. They have a water cooled jacket over the barrel to keep it from overheating. Gatling guns had multiple barrels. Ok, I'm done being "that guy". Keep up with the good content!
Wait, scientists develop a formula that makes a person invisible and plan to use that on an army while the test subject tries to thwart them while dieing from radiation poisoning. Is this secretly Hollow Man 2?
There's nothing radiation can't do in old sci-fi movies. It can shrink you or turn you into a giant, it can transform you into a monster and it can make you invisible.
10:47 "his tragic career is quite fascinating and i'm going to give it a full exploring video, probably next year." . . . you tease! you can't add the word probably after the words tragic career.
:20 That's a water jacket, not extra barrels. M1917 water-cooled Browning machine gun. That's...still a lot of firepower for a prison. They have floodlights, unlimited firepower and STILL MISS...you're definitely right, they SUCK.
I got this confused with the other film MST3K covered, Indestructible Man, which is why I was confused when I initially saw the main character was not being played by Lon Chaney Jr.
Technically The guns the guards are firing are maxim machine guns. A single barreled water jacket cooled automatic repeating rifle. A Gatling gun has multiple barrels that rotate and fire one at a time. Since the same barrel is not continually firing no water cooling is needed. Pedantic rant ends.
For a 1950's film, those effects are actually amazing. Way beyond their time.
I can’t believe they filmed this in five days. It doesn’t seem possible. They had multiple sets.
I thought I recognized the 'disappearing' effect! It had the same 'sheen' as the car effect in Repo Man. Awesome!
I can almost see this film as a classic Sci Fi comic book of the 50s published by EC Comics. What a nice find Cecil.
It is a good example of doing the best with what you have. Cheap doesn't mean bad and as many a modern movie has shown having all the money in the world doesn't mean good.
I am always impressed with what SFX people in the early days of cinema could achieve without computers.
This is why those type of effects are my favourite. I love learning about the tricks and ingenuity that goes into making them. Plus they just look better than cgi to me.
Edward G. Ulmer directed one of the most underrated film noirs of all time called Detour. It’s also short but very much worth checking out
The Criterion Collection put it on DVD a while back. Intense thriller.
Should I go out of my way to check it out?
@@TheRealNormanBates yes
"Hit the bricks, sister!" OMG...I really needed that belly laugh! 😆
Gun nut to the rescue! I think those were supposed to be water-cooled machine guns, not gatling guns.
Edit: if I remember correctly, those are gas-powered mock-ups: they used gas to give the impression of shooting because real guns and blanks were too expensive, or forbidden.
Fellow gun nerd here, thank you for saving me the effort.
it is probably a real Vickers or Maxim with no barrel or trigger assembly only the shroud and body, with a blowtorch in the shroud; the fire flares up but never stops burning.
My autism thanks you
Maybe we should go back to gas power?
All gun nerds will flock to this!
I didn't realize the film was shot it just 5 days. It is pretty incredible by that standard.
Love the Grandma's Boy sound clip!
“Oh alcohol take me away.”🤣🤣🤣
Five days to make the film? It takes me five days just to pick a movie to watch on a streaming site
My aim is to create an army, you understand, an entire army of them. - Uhm; you couldn't handle ONE invisible man. He really hasn't thought this through very well has he?
A army of invisible people seems like recipe for friendly fire...
I just bought this with 5 other low budget movies called " Brains That Wouldn't Die " at a Dollar Tree store just today. Good review of this one! 🙂
I actually saw this in the thretre as a kid on Saturday matinee with Abbot and Catello meets the mummy. in 1960. Only kids were allowed in to see the film. Our parents would drop us off and then go home to create my baby sister lol
The photographic effects are actually credited to Howard A. Anderson Co., Roger George was responsible for the physical on-set effects like floating objects on wires etc., whereas the rotoscoped optical effects of the invisibility process were created by the Photographic Effects company.
"the music was too loud"
"We're you afraid of it?"
I wanted to say that it's a Maxim and not a Gatling, but I can forgive Cecil pretty much anything from the get go and today he gets a double of that for a stellar use of "Windowlicker" by Aphex Twin. This track needs more love, and the music video too. It's terrifying and hilarious rolled into crazy.
I was going to write the same thing that it's a Maxim Gun, the world's first fully automatic machine gun, made in the late 19th century and shockingly still sees use today.
In this age of remakes and reboots, I can see John Cena as Faust.
“What would you do?
Nah, I don’t care.”
Yet another classic gem that I had no idea existed. Nice!
Can't wait for the Ulmer retrospective.
it's the holes in the plot that make him visible.
The amazing transparent man is worth seeing. Har har.
0:20 "Gatling guns!" Cecil, Cecil. Those are Maxim or Hotchkiss machine guns, used extensively during World War I. That's a water reservoir for cooling, not extra barrels.
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Interesting. Also, a stapler is called a "Hotchkiss" in Japanese. Did the same company make guns AND staplers?!
Trying to inform so don't bite my head off but that is not a Gatling gun (it does not have multiple barrels). It's probably a water cooled machine gun, possibly a Maxim gun.
0:24 No, just learned how to shoot at The Galactic Empire Shooting Class, same place they train their Stormtroopers how to shoot. 😉😂🤣
Good to hear you laughing, you're great reviewing movies.
Nice to see Effects man Roger George mentioned. I knew Roger pretty well back in the day. He was on most of the low budget Corman films I worked on. He used to let me help him rig gags for the set. Taught me a lot a basic on set effects
Those aren't gatling guns, they are maxims. Gatlings are manually operated miniguns.
Nice to see new material. I remember that I've found Your channel during my times in Netherlands (around 7-8 years ago). I loved it then, I love it now. I love that quality and humour never dropped even a little bit.
I found this channel during the early months of the Winnie the Pooh Flu. A very fun way to kill time. With this, Fanboy Flicks and The Critical Drinker, I got to enjoy lots of informid movie-crapping
@@MegaDcmp I love all of those channels, but tell me you also watch the Mecca of them all, RedLetterMedia.
if you're a gamer (or even if you're not) I highly recommend a fella named Civvie11 on YT. He's got the goods.
@@guyvizard549 RLM is fire.
In fact, Civvie11 reviews both DOOM movies, and the Max Payne movie. I think that's what got me into him. The latter review is one of my top favorite movie reviews online, next to Plinkett's "Ghostbusters" and Mark Kermode reviewing the "Entourage" movie.
As soon as I heard the character's name was Faust, I was thinking, "he's going to make a bad deal isn't he?"
Keep up the amazing work!
Cecil's review of this movie is transparently great, informative and funny.
Honestly, a movie about invisible zombies could be kind of awesome. Or terrible.
Imagine all those scenes of people being eaten by invisible zombies. Oh, the acting! The ACT-IIIIING!
For those in the UK there's a channel called Talking Pictures that airs films like this, they actually showed this one the other month.
Rare that you see a Black and White movie that acknowledges that radiation poisoning exists.
Truly a low-budget Faust. Call him a Faustian bargain!
Water cooled machine gun. Gatlin gun has multiple barrels.
Search for a Shadow sounds like a much cooler title though.
Great job on the review, Cecil. I agree that for a movie shot in five days, it does look impressive. Also, kudos for the "five fingers say to the face". I gotta remember that one.
I'll keep an eye out for this one.
I asked a gun nut about the type of ammunition required to "rip out your spine and roll it up like a ball of string", and was told "thirty thirty". Now, I know that's a real ammo type, but I was previously unaware of such effects. I'm off to the gun store to buy all the "thirty thirties"!!!
I laughed out loud at the summary of the film given! 😆😆. This film is barely an hour long & still better than many 2 or 3 hour films that I've set through. What part of Texas was this filmed in? I'm really looking forward to that Edgar G. Ulmer career retrospective, you got planned. Make sure to mention his 1965 film "the cavern". That's my favorite Edgar G. Ulmer flick.
Another old movie that ends with a message to the audience. Classic trope of the time. Probably the most famous and well executed would be the "Keep watching the skies" speech from The Thing From Another World, but there's plenty that are hammier and more preachy. But in showing Roger George's credits, you showed the poster for Repo Man. Now THERE'S a WTF movie ripe for showcasing on your channel!
Saw this recently here in the UK on TalkingPictures TV as part The Cellar Club, shown on a Friday.
Still an amazing video on a little-known flick. Thanks!!
A guy named Faust offering a bargain to someone?
My, how the tables have turned!
There he is
Combination of genres and using broad genres like fantasy or sci-fi as a springboard for other genres like mystery or horror is always interesting. That's the thought process that led Asimov to write his Robot series, he wanted to do a sci-fi murder mystery.
5:29 Windowlicker at a rave? You crazy!
Looking forward to an Ulmer video in the future.
The Amazing Trans-Parent Man would be a lot different
5 days? it look way way better than it has the right to be
No where as good as The Invisible Man, but I'll still give the film credit!
1:20 There's a good chance that the cop who stops the car and lets them go has not seen any pics of the convict's face. Before FAX and all.
Fun fact: one of the guards in the first heist was played by Patrick Crenshaw. Patrick later played Blue in “Old School”.
Nice to see someone outside the defensive firearm channels having a basic notion of trigger discipline
Pretty sure those are Maxim machine guns
Thanks be to Brandon Herrera lol
Ah yes, Maxim, not Browning as I first thought. Gattling guns have multiple rotating barrels ... so our good friend is wrong here ...
Great content.
0:18: Actually those are water-cooled machineguns. 😜
2:56 this would be about the time Mike Bracken would have Danny say "Hell yeah!"
5:05 it's all about the message, Cecil. Faust (really?) was telling him "pay me more or it's _curtains_ for ya!"
11:56 so, what you're saying is... just as the movie starts to wear out it's welcome.. it _disappears?_
Can't wait for his first Exploring video from the 30s. There were no production troubles that led him to the director's downfall. It's the thing that quite shocked Hollywood and Universal.
we're far enough along now I thought you meant for his first one after New Years in less than 8 years from now
No one will ever confuse the beginning with The Shawshank Redemption. Please consider Police Connection aka The Mad Bomber, Cecil. And thanks again!!!
I just rewatched the MST3K episode last night.
this was better than the mst3k version. thank you
Back to the MST3k stockpile? I'm not complaining, seeing if the title doesn't include the words "Space" or "Mutiny" people tend to go "Huh? I never heard of that one."
Manos? That one references itself, I never include it.
''Oh no, if it isn't the consequences of my actions'' hahaha
When I was transparent I kidnapped a hippo, went to the grocery store and stole all the smoked sausage. Then I robbed a bank. I was only caught b/c the hippo squealed. Turns out he was an undercover officer and it was a set up. I got off on entrapment.
Not a Gatling gun, a Maxim.
Ooo good ol Window Licker
IMdb incorrect with a description? Colour me shocked!
Now I can't wait for that video about that director's tragic life.
ackchyually those were either 1917 Browning machine guns or Lewis guns. They have a water cooled jacket over the barrel to keep it from overheating. Gatling guns had multiple barrels. Ok, I'm done being "that guy". Keep up with the good content!
They look more like Maxim guns. Sorry for being "that other guy."
I was not ready for 3:51 damn
very interesting movie thanks for the review
From Ulmer the only movies I know are The Black Cat and the film noir Detour, that one is a masterpiece
This reminds me of one of the invisible man sequels, where Griffin is sent to fight nazis.
Wait, scientists develop a formula that makes a person invisible and plan to use that on an army while the test subject tries to thwart them while dieing from radiation poisoning. Is this secretly Hollow Man 2?
There's nothing radiation can't do in old sci-fi movies. It can shrink you or turn you into a giant, it can transform you into a monster and it can make you invisible.
2:24 He has .357 Magnum Long Rifles rounds in that lever action repeater,.. those things don't play.. especially at that range.
Back when they used actual guinea pigs as guinea pigs.
Do you think it’s possible if you can do exploring video on The Adventures of Pinocchio from 1996 directed by Steve Barron?
I saw this movie on MST3K
Not Gatling guns. 303 caliber Vickers machine guns.
10:47 "his tragic career is quite fascinating and i'm going to give it a full exploring video, probably next year." . . . you tease! you can't add the word probably after the words tragic career.
6:14 "...lay off the giggle water..."
Uh, doesn't she mean "Giggle Cream"?
i loved this film, got it years ago, and it's the only time the term guinea pig is correct!!
That's a Maxim gun. A gatling gun is a multibarreled rotary gun.
The effects was pretty decent for the time.
Nice Dave Chappelle Rick James callback
I always felt the movie premise had potential. A slightly different motivation for a standard invisible man movie
back in the 50's and early 60's radiation was basically magic or the force
:20 That's a water jacket, not extra barrels. M1917 water-cooled Browning machine gun. That's...still a lot of firepower for a prison. They have floodlights, unlimited firepower and STILL MISS...you're definitely right, they SUCK.
I got this confused with the other film MST3K covered, Indestructible Man, which is why I was confused when I initially saw the main character was not being played by Lon Chaney Jr.
Technically The guns the guards are firing are maxim machine guns.
A single barreled water jacket cooled automatic repeating rifle.
A Gatling gun has multiple barrels that rotate and fire one at a time. Since the same barrel is not continually firing no water cooling is needed.
Pedantic rant ends.
This is Hollow Man.
Wait a minute! Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes was making a reference to this movie when chewing with his mouth open!?!
No my reward is just enjoying your content. nothis is better, thank You.