Here's one review of the 1933 film by Carl Laemmle starring Karloff & Lugosi.
At the Roxy. Copyright New York Times Company Jan 11, 1936.
Catching Andromeda's Light (Highlight Magazine for Children December 2007) - that's what Dr. Rukh (Boris) did. In fact, he caught so much light he was glowing. This 1933 film had it all; love triangle, professional rivalry and good against evil (Boris and Bela again), revenge, greed, time travel, radioactivity (RadiumX). Interestingly enough, Boris lived with Mama Rukh, a blind but insightful deeply religious woman. After Boris restores her eyesight with RadiumX (painstakingly retrieved from deep in Africa) she is horrified. The mother mentions how her son broke the first law of science
Poor Boris loses his mind because of the life-long medication he needs from Bela to treat his "light"headedness. In the end .. I'll just say Mama Rukh comes through for all of humanity.
Like Shelley's Frankenstein, there are "some secrets we are not meant to know" (The Invisible Ray.)
And, not to be confused with the Band, The Invisible Rays. Featuring footage from many of our horror movies. Horror, or terror?
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