The Invisible Man Returns year. The Invisible Man Returns The Invisible Man Returns is a 1940 American horror science fiction film from Universal. It was written as a sequel to the 1933 film "The Invisible Man", which was based on the novel "The Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells. The studio had signed a multi-picture contract with Wells, and they were hoping that this film would do as well as the first. It would be followed by the comedic "The Invisible Woman" later the same year. The screen play for the film was written by Lester Cole and Curt Siodmak (as Kurt Siodmak). The
The Invisible Man so he extended it. Russian writer Yakov I. Perelman pointed out in "Physics Can Be Fun" (1913) that from a scientific point of view, a man made invisible by Griffin's method should have been blind, since a human eye works by "absorbing" incoming light, not letting it through completely. Wells seems to show some awareness of this problem in Chapter 20, where the eyes of an otherwise invisible cat retain visible retinas. Nonetheless, this would be insufficient, since the retina would be flooded with light (from all directions) that ordinarily is blocked by the opaque sclera of the eyeball. Also,