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Mysterious Intruder (1946)

Mysterious Intruder (1946) is a private-eye secret fortune mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. Directed by William Castle, the production features Richard Dix, Barton MacLane and Nina Vale. 

It is the fifth of Columbia Pictures' eight The Whistler films produced in the 1940s, the first seven starring Dix.

Dix plays the film noir private eye which is set up to tip top perfection complete with the flashing neon sign working the urban evening outwith and casting a technogothic glow across the office.

As a theme, sanatorium noir has never been fully proposed despite their being some decent sanatorium cinema from the 1940s in particular. Mysterious Intruder (1946) is fun and loose, not always convincing, but yet features a strong noir cast, relative to the budget and production values.

The Invisible Woman (1940)

The Invisible Woman (1940) is an US science fiction comedy film with little to commend it to the regular noir nor horror marketeer noireau, and yet comedy included it still grabs the headlines with its genre mixup and inevitable 1940s-style gender statements. It features Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, and Oskar Homolka.

The Invisible Woman is an US science fiction comedy film. In this fil, well, to say the least an attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine. Danger and hilarity and gender immorality ensues.