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Typical cheese of the 70's. Good for laughs. Overly smug Ben Murphy plays a secret agent named Sam Casey who works for "Intersect", which is housed in a redressed parking garage.(Apparently Intersect couldn't afford a better office building). He was apparently involved in an accident earlier in his career that caused him to turn invisible, but he was cured. However, he was left with the ability to turn back invisible whenever he wanted, by using a handy wristwatch outfitted for him by Intersect. This we learn via vague flashbacks which leave us with more questions than answers. witness Murphy's narration of the flashback: "...all I could say was, 'What the hell happened?'"The movie itself is not really a movie at all. It is actually two different episodes of the very short lived TV series "Gemini Man", which ran in or around 1976. It was probably spliced together because they were the only two episodes which also co-starred (I use the term 'starred' lightly) hillbilly music personality Jim Stafford.The two episodes were obviously unrelated other than that, and the poor editing doesn't help to cover up this fact. Watch & listen for the edits where they try to tie these two together, you'll have a hearty laugh. I actually wasted some time researching facts about the original TV series and found out that the second part (episode) of this movie never actually aired on TV. The show had already been canceled five or six weeks previous to its scheduled airdate. I guess the producer just couldn't bear to waste all that great footage of Jim Stafford yelping like a hyena in heat. One word of advice: Do yourself a favor and locate the episode of the classic TV show "Mystery Science Theater 3000" which features this movie. Then you can *really* enjoy Riding With Death. Its one of their funniest episodes ever. (With material like RWD, how could it not be hilarious?)

Yes, another one who saw this "movie" on the late, lamented "MST3K" (and WHEN will Sci-Fi start showing this again? Who wouldn't swap "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World" for this, even if it means swapping Jennifer O'Dell for Pearl?). A weak-as-water meshing of two episodes of Universal's second attempt to get an invisible man series to work, this gives away its roots at every turn, from the awful attempts to link the two stories onwards.Harve Bennett and the late Leslie Stevens have good track records in TV, but this wasn't a boon for either of them; and to make matters worse, Lee Holdridge's stirring theme tune isn't even here! (At least Sci-Fi in the UK had the decency to also show "Gemini Man" at around this time, including the two episodes that make up this movie.) As is often the case, all the entertainment to be had comes in the MST3K version - and as Mike put it, "Is there such a thing as 'Starring Ben Murphy'? Isn't it more accurate to say that most of the time the camera's pointed in the direction of Ben Murphy?" From his mouth to God's ear.The thought that somewhere in the world this might have actually gotten into a cinema is horrible...

If you really want to "enjoy" this movie, check out the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version, I think it's from the 8th or 9th season. (Find the MST3K page under the sci-fi channel's website.) It's one of the best episodes of that show; the first half being much funnier than the second half.

Someone at Universal thought it would be a good idea to make a show about a guy who can turn himself invisible. But, they made him a government agent, and made him mellow. Dr. Heywood Floyd, transported from the year 2001, assigns the ever cool and mellow Sam Casey to transport Murray from the MTM Show, from point A to point B. Oh there's also something about an unstable liquid. Anyway, Captain Stubing intends to doublecross our mellow hero and take off with ten million dollars. Then there's some scenes with Jim Stafford singing and driving a truck, Sam turning invisible and then finally a truck blowing up. Then we go into the fast paced world of raceing! There's the elusive Robert Denby and why he's elusive, we never find out. Dr. Floyd is harassed by his dentist and a woman named Cupcake plots and schemes. Sam and Buffalo Bill, as Stafford is known in this mishmash, throw some punches, drive some cars and thwart the machinations of the ever elusvie Robert Denby. Oh, and Abby is quite a gal. She's such a gal that she can view things in her lab and project her thoughts over space and time. Based on a story by H.G. Wells, and I think he's suing.