That was an excellent one.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

When a daffy newlywed married couple (Eddie Craven and Marie Wilson) find a corpse in a military base warehouse, fingers point automatically to the brooding Boris Karloff who must think quickly to defend himself. This lame programmer, either filmdom's longest short, or shortest feature, seems rushed into production, not giving time to really develop the characters and a plot that is extremely cliched. Combining a supposed sci fi element, this film totally disappoints, and the comedy is ridiculously unfunny. Wilson overdoes the dumb blonde act, and Craven has no screen presence. Karloff does all he can to rise above the mediocrity, and the direction by John Farrow (his second with Karloff in just a year) has no real flow. The painless short running time makes this easier to get through, but I classify this as one of the worst Warner Brothers second feature, one that should have ended up in the public domain with a few others whose copyright they chose not to renew, which like this, are among their worst films.

Imagine Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in her prime.She would have married a private,unbeknown to her new husband's superiors.As they did not have time enough for a well-deserved honeymoon,they decide to do it military style,that is to say inside the camp.Of course they have to hide away from the staff.To make the matters worse,very mysterious (and even criminal ) things happen and 'official-secrets" might not be secret anymore.In spite of Boris Karloff's presence,it is not really a horror movie,but rather a whodunit:it is not difficult to guess who the murderer is and anyway we have a lady detective.She came "without warning" and she will be very insightful.

Invisible Menace, The (1938) ** (out of 4) Slightly entertaining whodoneit about a body being found at a military institution and the investigation that follows. I've seen countless films like this over the years and this one here really isn't any better or worse than the majority out there. The main reason to see this film is due to Boris Karloff but be warned that he's not in the film too much even with the top billing. The supporting cast are decent but the good thing is that the film runs a short 54-minutes. Had the screenplay been a tad bit better the film might have worked better.

This film starts out with Pvt. Eddie Pratt (Eddie Craven),"Down Missouri Way",'46 manages to bring his new bride, Sally(Marie Wilson),"My Friend Irma" TV Series,'52 on to Powder Island Arsenal, a government reservation. He tries to hide her in a vacant building, the military discover a murdered body of an officer. After intense investigations and mysterious attempts are made on the lives of the Army officers in charge, every member on the post falls under suspicion. Colonel Rogers (Cy Kendall),"Call Northside 777",'48 assists in the investigation and recognizes one of the civilians, Jevries(Boris Karloff),"Bedlam"'46, to be an embezzler who was arrested years ago. It is also revealed that the murdered man was his enemy. Found out this picture was based on a 1937 Broadway play,"Without Warning" and actor Eddie Craven repeated his original stage role in this picture. Warner Bros. remade this film five years later as "Murder on the Waterfront". I was amazed to see that Boris Karloff played an entirely different role as a Number One Bogie Man,(Frankenstein) and noticed that his role was a sympathetic one, meek, mild. I believe the audiences felt sorry for him in this picture. As always, Boris gave a great performance. This is a great Classic Film to view.