Despite the excellent title, THE NEW INVISIBLE MAN is one of the weaker episodes of the Colonel March TV series and certainly the weakest of three episodes stitched together for the feature film anthology COLONEL MARCH INVESTIGATES. The story is a simple locked room murder case with a bizarre twist; a witness to the crime saw a pair of disembodied hands committing the crime.
The story is let down by some insufferably stuffy characters and a lot of padding that seems to drag things out endlessly even though the running time only clocks in at 25 minutes. Karloff and Roberts are on autopilot here, although there is a nice little role for Patricia Owens, the actress best known for her role in THE FLY. I did enjoy the eventual reveal, which is a clever twist, but the journey to that point is a distinctly average one.
The story is let down by some insufferably stuffy characters and a lot of padding that seems to drag things out endlessly even though the running time only clocks in at 25 minutes. Karloff and Roberts are on autopilot here, although there is a nice little role for Patricia Owens, the actress best known for her role in THE FLY. I did enjoy the eventual reveal, which is a clever twist, but the journey to that point is a distinctly average one.