Question 1

Which other Universal films reused the set for Dr. Rukh's laboratory?

Accepted Answer

The set for Dr. Rukh's laboratory also appeared as Ming the Merciless's lab in Flash Gordon (1936) and Countess Zelaska's castle in Dracula's Daughter (1936).

Question 2

What sound effect from The Invisible Ray was reused in Universal's Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials?

Accepted Answer

The sound effect of the meteor approaching Earth was used continually by Universal Pictures as the sound of rocket ships in its Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers movie serials.

Question 3

Which recycled set from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) appears as a church in The Invisible Ray?

Accepted Answer

The church where Frank Lawton and Frances Drake get married, called the 'Church of the Six Saints' in the film, is actually the set of Notre-Dame Cathedral recycled from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).

Question 4

What prank did the crew play on Boris Karloff during filming?

Accepted Answer

In 1986, Frances Drake recalled that the crew raised Boris Karloff on a platform over the radium pit and left him there when they broke for lunch. Karloff was a good sport about it.

Question 5

Which Universal serial reused the scene of Boris Karloff being lowered into the radium pit?

Accepted Answer

The scene of Boris Karloff being lowered into the pit containing Radium X was reused in the Universal serial The Phantom Creeps (1939), starring Bela Lugosi. Karloff essentially doubled for Lugosi in that sequence.

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