![]() Sorenson happily accepts the challenge of discovering how Griffin regained his visibility. Griffin reveals that he is actually visible under the facial cream, and they kiss. Sorenson appears with Griffin's American handler, who vouches for Sorenson that she has been an Allied double-agent all along. Later, in a hospital, Griffin has recovered and is wearing facial cream so that he can be visible again. England's air defense shoots down their craft, but not before Sorenson parachutes them to safety. Griffin succumbs to his injuries before he can radio ahead. Stauffer's loyal men catch up with Karl Heiser and he is shot. The couple acquires one of the bombers slated for the New York attack, and destroy other German planes on the ground as they fly to England. Assuming command, Heiser arrives too late to the local air base to stop Griffin and Sorenson from escaping. For their joint failure to safeguard the list of Axis agents, Ikito kills Stauffer and then performs seppuku, ritual suicide, as Heiser watches from the shadows. Griffin and Sorensen are taken to the Japanese embassy, but manage to escape during the mayhem that ensues when Stauffer's men arrive. Heiser escapes detection and attempts to save his life and career by phoning in Ikito's activities to Stauffer. At the shop, Griffin confronts Maria Sorenson, whom he suspects has betrayed Schmidt, and is captured with a net trap by Ikito's men. Griffin returns with Heiser to Schmidt, who in the meantime has been arrested and tortured by Stauffer. In exchange for additional information, Griffin helps Heiser escape his imminent execution. Without revealing their plans to each other, both men start separate hunts for the Invisible Agent.Griffin steals into a German prison to obtain information from Karl Heiser about a planned German attack on New York City. When Stauffer refuses to answer Ikito's questions, the two confess to each other that German and Japanese cooperation is not one of trust. ![]() Conrad Stauffer tries to hide the loss of the list from the prying Baron Ikito, who has been staying at the local Japanese Embassy. Griffin takes the list of agents to Arnold Schmidt for transmission to England. Despite walking into Stauffer's trap, Griffin manages to obtain the list of agents, and start a fire to cover his escape. When he learns of Heiser's disastrous romantic dinner with Sorenson, Stauffer has Karl Heiser arrested and baits a trap for Griffin, whom he comes to suspect has made contact with Maria. The two are attracted to each other.Ĭonrad Stauffer returns from his efforts in the United States and tries to manage his shifting alliances with Karl Heiser, Maria Sorenson, and Baron Ikito. Later, an apologetic Griffin demonstrates his existence to Sorenson by putting on a robe and smearing facial cream on his features. Finally enraged when the dinner table mysteriously tips and soils his uniform, Heiser places Sorenson under house-arrest. Drunk from champagne, Griffin uses his invisibility to play tricks on Heiser instead. According to their plan, Sorenson attempts to gain information from Heiser during a private dinner, with Griffin as witness. ![]() Griffin is aided in his task by Maria Sorenson (Ilona Massey), a German espionage agent and the love interest of both Stauffer and Stauffer's well-connected second-in-command, Gestapo Standartenführer Karl Heiser (J. Griffin is to obtain a list of German and Japanese spies within the U.S. Griffin evades the troops and makes contact with an old coffin-maker named Arnold Schmidt (Albert Basserman), who reveals the next step of Griffin's mission. Later, while in-flight to be parachuted behind German lines on a secret mission, he injects himself with the serum, becoming invisible as he is parachuting down, to the shock and confusion of the German troops tracking his descent, and after landing strips off all of his clothing. government officials, but following the Attack on Pearl Harbor agrees to limited cooperation (the condition being that the formula can only be used on himself). Griffin is reluctant to release the formula to the U.S. Griffin manages to escape with the formula. ![]() They offer to pay for the invisibility formula and threaten amputation of his hands if it is not revealed. One of the men, Conrad Stauffer (Cedric Hardwicke), is a lieutenant general of the S.S., while a second, Baron Ikito (Peter Lorre), is Japanese. One evening, he is confronted in his shop by four armed men who reveal that they are foreign agents working for the Axis powers and they know his true identity. Frank Griffin Jr, the grandson of the original Invisible Man, runs a print shop in Manhattan under the assumed name of Frank Raymond (Jon Hall). ![]()
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