X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
by Roger Corman
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Actor: Diana Van der Vlis, Don Rickles, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Ray MillandDirector: Roger Corman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Movie Review: Classic-Era Star Elevates Film
Summary: 4 Stars
This was the typically-hokey-but fun Roger Corman film which stars a famous classic-era actor: Ray Milland.
One actually wonders what an actor of Milland's status would doing in a Grade B sci-fi movie like this. For someone who had admired Milland's work for many years, it just seems odd for me to see him in a small-budget film (I hadn't seen the others he had done around this time.)
Whatever, at least having him in the movie elevates it and the dialog isn't as cheesy as one would expect in this genre in this time period. Comedian Don Rickles, playing a greedy criminal guy, was another odd cast selection, but, he, too, was fun to watch.
Corman was smart to keep this at a respectable 79 minutes. Had it gone on longer, it would have started to drag. It would be interesting to see this film done with today's special-effects.
Summary of X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
"Only the gods see everything," cautions one scientist as Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) experiments with a formula that will allow the human eye to see beyond the wavelength of visible light. "I am closing in on the gods," he responds with the hubris that is doomed to destroy his overreaching ambition. A mix of Greek tragedy and sci-fi potboiler, Roger Corman's X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (simply identified as X in the eerie, odd opening credits) is a familiar tale of a scientist who risks everything to explore the unknown and is finally driven mad by, literally, seeing too much. Peeping through the clothes of comely women is all good adolescent fun until the gift becomes a nightmare as his sight rages out of control. The possibilities suggested in the hints of addiction and inconsistent bouts of megalomania remain tantalizingly unexplored in the unfocused script, and Corman's cut-rate special effects are often more hokey than haunting (the "city dissolved in an acid of light" that Xavier poetically describes becomes fuzzy photography through a series of color filters). Don Rickles offers a venal turn as a scheming carnival barker turned blackmailing con man, and Diana Van der Vlis is understanding as a sympathetic scientist who tries to rescue Xavier from his spiral into tortured madness, but in the tradition of Greek tragedy, he is doomed to be destroyed by the very gifts he desires.MGM's widescreen disc also features commentary by director-producer Corman. --Sean Axmaker
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