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  1. Sep 18, 2024 · Roger Corman’s film X (titled X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes in advertisements only) — released Sept. 18, 1963 — starring Academy Award-winning actor Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend, Dial M For Murder) takes that undeniable hook and runs with it from the first scene, where we meet Milland’s Dr. James Xavier, already deep in his research on how to increase the range of human vision. By ...

  2. <p>Dr. James Zavier is hooked on a bizarre search for forbidden knowledge and power. When the experiment with his x-ray vision serum goes haywire, his sight increases until he is almost blind. He can see through everything until he sees nothing but blinding white light.</p> <p>Gold Key Comics' comic book adaptation of the 1963 Alta Vista Productions film by Roger Corman starring Ray Milland ...

  3. scienceandfilm.org › articles › 3650Sloan Science & Film

    Roger Corman’s science-fiction film, X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, takes the medical ideal of seeing inside living bodies to its logical—though not plausible—extreme, playing with the fantasy of omniscience and with the disturbing, even deadly, implications that accompany it. Released in 1963 (a week before the assassination of JFK), X ...

  4. Corman made X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes after his 1963 H. P. Lovecraft film adaptation The Haunted Palace. In his non-fiction book Danse Macabre, Stephen King claims there were rumors the ending originally went further, with Milland crying out "I can still see" after gouging out his eyes. [6]

  5. Learn more. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes: Directed by Roger Corman. With Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt. An ambitious scientist invents an eye drop formula that grants him X-ray vision, but his new powers have disastrous consequences.

  6. American director Roger Corman's science-fiction horror thriller X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) is a fantastic old classic. Corman can stretch a dollar more than any other low budget ...

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  8. Synopsis. Ray Milland plays Dr. James Xavier a brilliant scientist who understands that the human eye only perceives a tenth of the entire visual spectrum. Through his experiments he develops an eye drop that allows a monkey to see through hard material and his gal-pal Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van der Vlis) is astounded at the discovery. Xavier ...