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X: The Man With X Ray Eyes
The "X" ray vision is another dream with the invisibility that every
male teenager has made. It's not different today, but it's another
matter. If invisibility was really unthinkable, on "X-Ray view there
was some persons who has mocked a lot of people making belive that with
a special glasses a person could see through the clothes and so realize
the dream. Evereyone who turn thirty and something surely Someone who
has spent thirty surely remember the advertisements of these miraculous
objects that were in the third or fourth cover of magazines and comics
in every barber shop worthy of note.
Probably also in the U.S. the situation was the same. The view that
everything passes, teasing people and even the directors and film
producers. So the idea is taken, processed, and made the subject of a
"sci-fi" thanks to the expert hands of the legendary Roger Corman.
According to many the american director touches on one of the highest
points of his infinite career. As usual he shot in a short time, three
weeks, with a rather low budget, $ 250,000, using the usual the great
ability to arrange the situations like every craftsman of high class.
The special effects work as usual in their simplicity and the X-ray
vision seems more psychedelic than anything else but it give a nice
touch of color.
The history has never stopping moments, events are moving with a
dramatic crescendo that leads to an unsettling horror moment. One look
at "X", original title of this movie and thinks that he is faced with a
nice sci-fi, but at some point he was struck by an incredible turn that
leaves you speechless. Perfect.
"X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes" don't tells the dreams of a man who wants
to see under clothes, but tells about the Dott.Xavier's experiments
aiming to have an x-ray vision to better care and more quickly the
sick. Ok, don't miss a scene at a party in which he is not ashamed to
look at people who appear to him nake nude, but it's the only
concession to comedy throughout the movie.
Xavier's experiments led him to inject every day a special eye drops
that gives precisely the ability to see better. Actually he saves the a
young girl suffering from cancer, but as a tragedy wants, because
otherwise the movie could end here, his colleagues turned their backs
and the civil society takes away the ability to have funds for
improving hisinvention.
The true chaos, begins when Xavier kills in a incredible way a
colleague, in what is the weakest moment of the movie, a situation is
too driven to be credible, although credibility and sci-fi does not
exactly go hand in hand. The doctor then runs away, chased by police
and began working as a fortuneteller at Luna Park and later as a
"healer" even if it does not heal, but he sees diseases.
Always looking for funds to continue his work as a classic mad
scientist Xavier loses control of himself and falls into a vortex
without end.
The end that we don't reveal is the subject of a sort of legend. Two
versions are expected to exist. A fact that has been used and another
that has only been discussed for some and for others filmed but never
used.
But be quiet is the same Corman that reveals the mystery: the scene was
only discussed but never filmed. Another curiosity is that the film
originally had a prologue on the human senses, however, was cut into
different versions.
Apart from the well known skill of the director also the actors give
their best. The main protagonist is Ray Milland,Welsh actor famous at
the time and in 1946 winner of the Oscar for lead actor for "Lost
Weekend" by Billy Wilder. Other his famous interpretations are:
"Reap The Wild Wind" with John Wayne, "Dial M For Murder," "The Big
Clock" by Farrow and "Love Story". Besides a few "B Movie", which never
hurts. With him, the blonde Canadian Diana Van DerVlis,famous for roles
in two famous "Soap Opera". Then we find Harold J.Stone who starred in
major American TV series, which shares more or less the same career
with John Hoyt and Morris Ankrum. An extensive list of more experienced
actors that ends with the famous: Don Rickles. He was a remarkable
comedian and entertainer, he has worked with Sinatra and in various
sitcoms and talk shows.
