(There are spoilers) Another mad scientist-like movie but in this case it's not the scientist who's gone mad but the major who was hit it the head with shrapnel from a German artillery shell during the Battle of the Bulge and has never been the same since. Obviously suffering from a severely scrambled brain Major Paul Krenner, James Griffith, has come up with this mindless idea to create an army of radiated and invisible zombies. Krenner plans to the zombies to either take over the world or sell, at a hefty price, his invention to a country like the USSR to do it, take over the world, itself.
Major Krenner together with his reluctant girlfriend Laura, Marguerite Chapman, concocts the springing of master safe cracker Joey Faust, Douglas Kennedy, from prison to help him with his weird plan to have Joey crack a few safes, while he's made to be invisible, and steal this element X-13 that's needed for him to complete his strange and off-the-wall experiment. Of course Major Krenner doesn't have the expertise to pull off this crazy plan all by himself so he has been holding hostage, together with his daughter Maria (Carmel Daniel),former Nazi concentration camp scientist, he only did what he did because he was forced to do it not because he liked to do it, Dr. Peter Ulof, Iva Triesault. Dr Ulof is now a peace loving pacifist who doesn't have long to live due to his experiments that, like with the Nazis, he was forced to conduct by the crazed Major Krenner.
Forced to be put under the super X-Ray machine Joey does turn invisible and gets the X-13 from a US military nuclear plant. Unknowing to Joey is that he had contaminated himself with a lethal dose of nuclear radiation which, to say the least, makes Joey very very mad at the major. Now using his invisibility to rob a bank and use the money to skip out of the country Joey is persuaded by Dr. Ulof, who's also dying from radiation poisoning, to stop the mad Major Kernner from completing his experiments of invisible as well as nuclear human zombiefacation before it's too late.
Knowing that he's got no more then a month to live Joey feels that the money he got from his last bank robbery would do nothing for him in the future and decides to go back to Major Krenners laboratory and stop him from making an army of mindless and invisible zombies, like Joey himself, from becoming a reality. Joey bravely has it out, creating an atomic meltdown in the process , with the mad major as the entire laboratory and house as well as the surrounding countryside goes up in flames in a thermo-nuclear blast.
The movie, despite Joey and Laura getting nuked, did have somewhat of a happy ending. Joey ends up saving Dr. Ulof's daughter Maria from the crazed major, who kept her hidden in a closet in his laboratory. We also get a chilling and ominous warning by the doc, Ulof, to the audience as he turned to the camera as the movie was ending and asked, I guess he meant the CIA, if you had the ability to do what Major Krenner tried to do would do do it? After seeing what happened in the movie only a deranged and out of control nut-case like the Major would answer that question in the affirmative.
Major Krenner together with his reluctant girlfriend Laura, Marguerite Chapman, concocts the springing of master safe cracker Joey Faust, Douglas Kennedy, from prison to help him with his weird plan to have Joey crack a few safes, while he's made to be invisible, and steal this element X-13 that's needed for him to complete his strange and off-the-wall experiment. Of course Major Krenner doesn't have the expertise to pull off this crazy plan all by himself so he has been holding hostage, together with his daughter Maria (Carmel Daniel),former Nazi concentration camp scientist, he only did what he did because he was forced to do it not because he liked to do it, Dr. Peter Ulof, Iva Triesault. Dr Ulof is now a peace loving pacifist who doesn't have long to live due to his experiments that, like with the Nazis, he was forced to conduct by the crazed Major Krenner.
Forced to be put under the super X-Ray machine Joey does turn invisible and gets the X-13 from a US military nuclear plant. Unknowing to Joey is that he had contaminated himself with a lethal dose of nuclear radiation which, to say the least, makes Joey very very mad at the major. Now using his invisibility to rob a bank and use the money to skip out of the country Joey is persuaded by Dr. Ulof, who's also dying from radiation poisoning, to stop the mad Major Kernner from completing his experiments of invisible as well as nuclear human zombiefacation before it's too late.
Knowing that he's got no more then a month to live Joey feels that the money he got from his last bank robbery would do nothing for him in the future and decides to go back to Major Krenners laboratory and stop him from making an army of mindless and invisible zombies, like Joey himself, from becoming a reality. Joey bravely has it out, creating an atomic meltdown in the process , with the mad major as the entire laboratory and house as well as the surrounding countryside goes up in flames in a thermo-nuclear blast.
The movie, despite Joey and Laura getting nuked, did have somewhat of a happy ending. Joey ends up saving Dr. Ulof's daughter Maria from the crazed major, who kept her hidden in a closet in his laboratory. We also get a chilling and ominous warning by the doc, Ulof, to the audience as he turned to the camera as the movie was ending and asked, I guess he meant the CIA, if you had the ability to do what Major Krenner tried to do would do do it? After seeing what happened in the movie only a deranged and out of control nut-case like the Major would answer that question in the affirmative.