A Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.A Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.A Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Diana Van der Vlis
- Dr. Diane Fairfax
- (as Diana van der Vlis)
Budd Albright
- Dance sequence
- (uncredited)
Leon Alton
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
Morris Ankrum
- Mr. Bowhead
- (uncredited)
Benjie Bancroft
- Dealer
- (uncredited)
George DeNormand
- Medical Board Member
- (uncredited)
John Dierkes
- Preacher
- (uncredited)
Bobby Gilbert
- Man Outside Office
- (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
Kathryn Hart
- Mrs. Mart
- (uncredited)
Ed Haskett
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
Jonathan Haze
- Heckler
- (uncredited)
Harvey Jacobson
- Casino Boss
- (uncredited)
Vicki Lee
- Young Girl Patient
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTo create the effect of being able to see through a building, the director filmed the building while it was under construction.
- GoofsThe first x-ray that Dr. Xavier quizzes Dr. Fairfax with is normal chest x-ray. There is no bullet anywhere on that film. Bullets show up very well on x-rays.
- Quotes
Dr. Diane Fairfax: What do you see?
Dr. James Xavier: The city... as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.
- Alternate versionsThrough an apparent lab error, some of the 16mm U.S. television syndication prints had the ending credits in Spanish.
- ConnectionsEdited into Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità (2022)
Featured review
X-Ray Milland
Here is Corman at almost his best. Ray Milland was as good an actor as Vincent Price, and this story isn't trapped in the Poe mode of rotting flesh and dilapidated mansions. It's more in the manner of Corman's The Trip, which was made a few years later. Dr. Xavier discovers something that he can use to see through solid objects, but its effect is cumulative, and by the end of the movie he's seeing all the way to the core of reality.
Of course, he has to go on the run, and must abandon his medical career. We see him in a carnival, reading peoples' thoughts, and later teaming up with his x girlfriend and going to Vegas and seeing through the cards and winning big, and finally, escaping from the police, and as he drives through the Nevada desert, we see that he can't see a thing. Abandoning his Lincoln Continental, he stumbles into a tent revival meeting. The preacher, played by Royal Dano(?)is telling his followers to throw Satan out. Filmed by Floyd Crosby, with beautiful special effects, this is a real piece of 60's film-making by one of the masters.
Of course, he has to go on the run, and must abandon his medical career. We see him in a carnival, reading peoples' thoughts, and later teaming up with his x girlfriend and going to Vegas and seeing through the cards and winning big, and finally, escaping from the police, and as he drives through the Nevada desert, we see that he can't see a thing. Abandoning his Lincoln Continental, he stumbles into a tent revival meeting. The preacher, played by Royal Dano(?)is telling his followers to throw Satan out. Filmed by Floyd Crosby, with beautiful special effects, this is a real piece of 60's film-making by one of the masters.
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- Budget
- $250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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