{"id":31065,"date":"2022-12-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31065"},"modified":"2022-12-04T00:36:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:36:25","slug":"x-the-man-with-the-x-ray-eyes-1963-starring-ray-milland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31065","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes&#8221; (1963) starring Ray Milland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z120422zview_xrayeyes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes <\/strong><\/em>(1963)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Roger Corman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Dillon, Ray Russell<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Ray Russell<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles<\/strong> and <strong>Dick Miller<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Suddenly he could see through clothes, flesh&#8230; and walls!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. James Xavier (Milland) has invented drops that he believes will allow users to see different spectrums of light.\u00a0 Despite the risk, Xavier tests them on himself&#8230; and they work.\u00a0 Maybe too well.\u00a0 At first he can see what an x-ray would show, but over time his vision increases to more than he can comprehend.\u00a0 After accidentally killing a friend, Xavier goes on the run.\u00a0 As Xavier&#8217;s grip on sanity fades the police close in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes<\/em> is one of Roger Corman&#8217;s most popular movies.\u00a0 Ray Milland is fine as a scientist so driven he&#8217;ll risk his life to test his invention.\u00a0 Don Rickles plays it straight as a shady carny who sees money in exploiting Milland&#8217;s abilities.\u00a0 Dick Miller, a Corman regular, shows up as a sideshow heckler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;d have liked <em>X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes<\/em> better if&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*,,,there had been a stronger focus on him losing his mind because he can&#8217;t comprehend what he sees<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;and if there had been more consistency in his powers.\u00a0 Some of the abilities he displayed had nothing to do with vision and ventured more into mind-reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most folks like<em> X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes<\/em> more than I did; your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes<\/em> <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z120422zview_xrayeyes2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) Director: Roger Corman Screenplay:\u00a0 Robert Dillon, Ray Russell from a story by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31159,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions\/31159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}