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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   1,580 votes
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Director:
Roger Corman
Writers:
Robert Dillon (screenplay) and
Ray Russell (screenplay) ...
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View company contact information for X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
18 September 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
Suddenly he could see through clothes, flesh... and walls!
Plot:
Dr. Xaviers experiments with X-Ray vision start to go wrong. full summary | add synopsis
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(5 articles)
The Man With The X-Ray Eyes Gets Reboot
 (From toxicshock. 13 March 2009, 12:00 AM, PDT)

MGM to remake Corman's 'X-Ray Eyes'
 (From digitalspy. 12 March 2009, 2:23 AM, PDT)

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good mad doctor flick more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Ray Milland ... Dr. James Xavier
Diana Van der Vlis ... Dr. Diane Fairfax

Harold J. Stone ... Dr. Sam Brant
John Hoyt ... Dr. Willard Benson

Don Rickles ... Crane
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Man with the X-Ray Eyes
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (USA)
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Runtime:
79 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Pathécolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:12 | USA:Approved (PCA #20529)
Filming Locations:
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA more

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Trivia:
It has long been rumored that a final scene, in which Dr. Xavier screams "I can still see!" was cut by censors. No footage of this is known. However, the movie does end rather abruptly just as Dr. Xavier seems about to say something, and those words would provide a chilling climax to the story. This rumor is false according to Corman - In a Q&A with Corman he said this idea was discussed but never filmed. more
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Factual errors: When Dr. X operates on the little girl, his hands get no blood on them whatsoever. more
Quotes:
Dr. James Xavier: I'm blind to all but a tenth of the universe.
Dr. Sam Brant: My dear friend, only the gods see everything.
Dr. James Xavier: My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods.
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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
good mad doctor flick, 16 January 2006
7/10
Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

A good mad doctor flick courtesy of Roger Corman, in which Ray Milland plays a doctor who is experimenting with eye drops that allow further vision. Never mind that the monkey he experimented on dropped dead, he wants to try it himself. Of course you know all's not well once he does, otherwise there'd be no reason for this movie. At first he thinks it's kind of cool, especially at a party where he can see all the young ladies without their clothes. And, I might note, this is probably the only film available where you can see Milland do "the twist". But things go downhill at a fast pace when Milland accidentally knocks his best friend out a window to his death and he goes into hiding as a "seer" at a carnival, with Don Rickles as his manger. Eventually he's found by his assistant and ends up in Vegas cleaning out the blackjack tables and then suspicion arises and he's on the run again. I remember the ending from numerous times I saw this on TV and while tame by today's standards it's still a little bit of a shock. Not a bad little flick that shows that you can't mess around in things that you weren't meant to understand because it's too much for your tiny mind to take. 7 out of 10.

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