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: French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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: The "eyes" have it!
Summary: 4 Stars
Sorry, I just had to steal that line from Famous Monsters magazine. They ran a shot of Ray Milland at the end of this movie, after a "Lost Weekend". We all know how those are, when your eyes are REALLY bloodshot, but this Ray's fault. When I was a kid, this flick creeped me out bigtime. Haven't seen it since, but I'd love to, but surrealy folks, not for prices like this. Maybe the Roger Corman collection is the way to go. There's got to be some early Jack Nicholson in there.
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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