Deadly rays

Movie
German title	Deadly rays
Original title	The Invisible Ray
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1936
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Lambert Hillyer
script	John Colton
production	Edmund Grainger
music	Franz Waxman
camera	George Robinson
cut	Bernard Burton
occupation
	Boris Karloff : Dr. Janos Rukh; Bela Lugosi : Dr. Felix Benet; Frances Drake : Diane Rukh; Frank Lawton : Ronald Drake; Violet Kemble-Cooper : mother Rukh; Walter Kingsford : Sir Francis Stevens; Beulah Bondi : Lady Arabella Stevens; Frank Reicher : Professor Meiklejohn; Paul Weigel : Monsieur Noyer; Georges Renavent : Chief of the Surete;

Deadly Rays is an American horror film shot in black and white from 1936 that was only shown on television in Germany. It was first broadcast on April 6, 1982 on NDR . The script is based on a story by Howard Higgin and Douglas Hodges . An expedition to the African Moon Mountains led by Dr. Rukh has dire consequences.

action

The scientist Dr. Rukh is convinced that a radioactive meteorite crashed in Africa millions of years ago. He believes that this meteorite was made of a material that radiates more strongly than radium. Rukh equips an expedition to the African Moon Mountains to prove his theory. He and his colleague Dr. Benet, the second expedition leader, also find the substance in a volcanic crater. Dr. Rukh, who touches the material called Radium X, almost dies, but Dr. Benet an antidote and saves his colleague from certain death. Rukh is saved, but from now on suffers from paranoia. First he suspects some participants in the expedition, they want to claim his discovery for themselves, whereupon some of them, including Dr. Benet kills. Then he imagines that his wife has an affair with someone else. Rukh also wants to kill his wife, but he is prevented from doing so. The antidote that Dr. Benet still has to take Rukh regularly. Rukh's mother, who now knows what her son has done, destroys the drug. Without the remedy, Rukh is now completely insane. Finally he goes up in flames and throws himself out of a window.

criticism

“Classic horror film that offers comforting horror within familiar genre patterns; remarkable above all because of its trick effects. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Remarks

Deadly Rays is one of four films that starred Karloff and Lugosi. The others are The Raven , The Black Cat, and Black Friday .
The scenes in the volcano were reused in the 1939 film The Phantom Creeps .
In Deadly Rays , scenes from Flash Gordon and the laboratory from Frankenstein were used , among others .

Individual evidence

↑ Deadly Rays in the Lexicon of International Films

Web links

Invisible Ray in the Internet Movie Database (English)

[1] Deadly Rays in the Lexicon of International Films