Okay, raise your hand if you remember watching The Man With the X-Ray Eyes on Creature Double Feature on channel 56 as a kid. C’mon, you can fess up. (I suppose you can raise your hand if you saw it on another station in another town as well, but for the locals, all your horror and B-movie needs were taken care of by channels 38 and 56 when we were kids. And channel 56 did Creature Double Feature every Saturday from noon to four. My sister was a much bigger fan of this than I was, for the record.
Alright, so if you remember the movie you remember the ending of the movie. And if you haven’t seen the movie, stop reading now because I’m going to talk about the ending, and I don’t really feel like putting too much effort into protecting you from having a 1963 Roger Corman film spoiled. You have been warned.
Okay, so you remember how it ended…he kept putting the drops into his eyes, like an addict, until the were completely black. (At least that’s how I think it ended. That’s what I have burned in my brain anyway. His eyes turn all black and he goes blind. What a happy ending!) Anyhoo, my right eye is such a deep dark red that I feel like Ray Milland at the end of that movie. And now old lefty, feeling jealous, is developing the same problem. I can’t see through anything, for the record. So don’t worry about me ratting you out to your mom for your less than pristine underthings. My doctor told me yesterday that it probably wasn’t pinkeye because it was only in one eye. Okay, thanks for that. Now it’s spread to the other one, do I get to have medicine now? If not, I’m going to have to rip my eyes out. Or get me some X-Ray Eye drops.
Here’s a crappy photo taken with my phone.
lay off the weed.
Um, yea, that would be pink eye. Also, my kids all three had pinkeye recently, in ONE eye. That’s why they call it pinkEYE, not pinkEYES. Get.some.drops. It looks so painful.-Karen
That is one of my very favorite Ray Milland flicks!!! “It Happens Every Spring” is excellent. The Cold War put Ray in “Panic in the Year Zero,” which W should probably watch once again, and bringing the issue of racial prejudice to the big screen was the all-time, campy “The Thing With Two Heads,” co-starring Rosie Grier.
Good luck with the pink-eye.
Chupacabra – oh, so you think this is hayfever? I shouldn’t garden? Is that what you meant?
Karen – No kidding. Why does it have to be in both eyes if you are careful about washing your hands? Actually, I’m about to write an update on the whole thing.
Bill – Rosie and Ray, together again for the first time!