Invisible Man - The Mink Coat (1958)

★★★★ · Naive, charming, funny, great music · Claudg1950 · 2011-06-27

The McGuffin in this story is classically laughable: Two bad guys entered an Atomic Plant and photographed plans (which were not kept in a safe, just in a drawer!) of an unexplained kind of rocket. It seems that for screenwriters the plans for a rocket can be copied in a few photos. Also, I don't know why -other than following a spy tradition- it is said that the photos were taken on a "micro" film; at the end of the episode we can see that the material is a piece of ordinary 35 mm film. In Paris, one of the three cars shown has a right-handed steering wheel, and his French driver speaks…

★★★★ · The Mink Coat Microfilm Caper · Showbizbuff · 2009-06-16

Episode opens with view of a sign on a chain link fence. The sign reads "Atomic Commission Wilton Experimental Plant", and then we see two men break into the plant, using wire cutters to penetrate the fence, then going across roofs and down ladders. It looks like some kind of refinery, but we learn later that Rocket Research is being done at the plant. They break glass in a window and crawl into building.. They hang shades over the window to prevent their lights from being seen outside, go to a plans drawer, turn on lights and begin photography of blueprints. Meanwhile, a guard finds the…