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X - The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1963
Running Times: 79 mins
Format: Pathécolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Alta Vista Productions / American International
Pictures
Executive Producers: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff
Producer: Roger Corman
Associate Producer: Bartlett A. Carré
Production Manager: Robert Agnew
SCRIPT
Script: Robert Dillon, Ray Russell
Story: Ray Russell
DIRECTION
Director: Roger Corman
Assistant Director: Jack Bohrer
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Floyd Crosby
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Anthony Carras
MUSIC
Music: Les Baxter
Music Co-Ordinator: Al Simms
Music Editor: Eve Newman
SOUND
Sound: John Bury
Sound Editor: Al Bird
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Ted Coodley
Hair: Betty Pedretti (uncredited)
Costumes: Marjorie Corso
Hospital Uniforms: Martin Murray
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects Filmed In: Spectorama
Spectorama Consultant: John Howard
Special Effects: Butler-Glouner Inc
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer / Art Director: Daniel Haller
Set Decorator: Harry Reif
Properties: Karl Brainard
Construction Co-Ordinator: Ross Hahn
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Jack Cash
CAST
Ray Milland (Dr James Xavier)
Diana Van der Vlis (Dr Diane Fairfax)
Harold Stone (Dr Sam Brant)
John Hoyt (Dr Willard Benson)
Don Rickles (Crane)
Morris Ankrum (Mr Bowhead - uncredited)
Lorrie Summers (party blonde - uncredited)
Dick Miller (John Trask - uncredited)
John Dierkes (preacher - uncredited)
Kathryn Hart (Mrs Mart - uncredited)
Jonathan Haze (heckler - uncredited)
Vicki Lee (young patient - uncredited)
Barboura Morris (nurse - uncredited)
SUMMARY
Scientist Dr James Xavier invents a drug that allows
him to see beyond the normal range of human sight and eventually leads
to him being able to see through objects. But as he takes more and more
of the drub and he begins to see through the barriers of reality itself,
Xavier starts to lose his grip on his sanity...
CAPSULE REVIEW
An intelligent and unsettling film that benefits from
an outstanding performance from Ray Milland and which boasts one of
the most chilling final shots in genre history. The film deftly balances
humour, scientific jargon and outright horror to create one of Corman's
best loved and best made films, a classic of early 60s SF cinema.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: American International Pictures
Video Distributor: Orion Home Video; World Beyond Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 3242 OR)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1996
May
19: UK - shown at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London (on a double
bill with Xala (1974))
1999
August
24: USA - laserdisc release (Image Entertainment (ID 3242 OR))
POSTER TAGS
Suddenly he could see through
clothes, flesh... and walls!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Man With X-Ray
Eyes
X - The Man With X-Ray Eyes
Der Mann mit den Röntgenaugen - German title
El hombre con rayos X en los ojos - Spanish title
El hombre con visión de rayos X - Venezuelan title
Röntgenkatsemies - Finnish title
L'uomo dagli occhi a raggi X - Italian title
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Movie Club no.5
p.55 (USA)
review
NEWSPAPERS
Expresso, Cartaz
26 July 1997 (Portugal)
review (by Manuel Cintra Ferreira)
OTHER SOURCES
Riverside Studios
(Hammersmith, London, UK) programme May June 1996 p.13 (UK)
listing
KEYWORDS
science fiction, scientists, x-ray vision, las vegas, eyes,
laboratories, sideshows, surgery, human experiments
Last Updated:
23 August, 2009
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