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X (1963) | User Rating
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Budget $250,000
Running Time
1 hour, 19 minutes
Country USA
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Other Titles
• Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
• Der Mann mit den Röntgenaugen (1963)
• X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
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Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Cult Classic, Doctor, Suspense
Tagline: Suddenly he could see through clothes, flesh... and walls!
Plot: Ray Milland stars in this visionary sci-fi film as Xavier, a doctor who gains the power to see through solid objects; first it's women's dresses at a party, then people's bodily organs, and, eventually, God looking back at him from the center of the universe. Attractive Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van Der Vlis) is Xavier's love interest, though he can’t stop seeing through things long enough to notice her--he can’t even sleep since he can see through his own eyelids. When he accidentally kills a fellow doctor, Xavier winds up at a carnival sideshow where he performs fortune-telling and faith healing for a sleazy barker (Don Rickles). Later he and Diane head to Vegas, where his see-through card abilities parlay into a small fortune, but then he's on the run again, going progressively more insane as the visions get too much to bear. An insightful script, a moody Les Baxter score, and Milland’s tortured performance amply compensate for the film’s low budget, and there’s a twisted shock ending. It's considered an intellectual peak in B-movie maestro Roger Corman's vast canon, with cheap but engaging "X-ray" optical effects that anticipate his later psychedelic freak-out THE TRIP.
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| Directed by |
Roger Corman
The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, Pit and the Pendulum |
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| Cast |
Ray Milland
Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend, Love Story | | | John Hoyt
Spartacus, Blackboard Jungle, Julius Caesar | | Morris Ankrum
The Postman Always Rings Twice, In a Lonely Place, The Fountainhead | John Dierkes
Shane, The Thing From Another World, The Omega Man | |
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Les Baxter
The Raven, Pit and the Pendulum, House of Usher |
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