The Amazing Mr. X
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| The Amazing Mr. X | |
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 A promotional film poster for "The Amazing Mr. X." |
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| Directed by | Bernard Vorhaus |
| Produced by | Benjamin Stoloff |
| Written by | Crane Wilbur Muriel Roy Bolton Ian McLellan Hunter |
| Starring | Turhan Bey Lynn Bari Cathy O'Donnell |
| Music by | Alexander Laszlo |
| Cinematography | John Alton |
| Editing by | Norman Colbert |
| Distributed by | Eagle-Lion Films Inc. |
| Release date(s) | 29 July 1948 |
| Running time | 78 min |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
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The Amazing Mr. X, also known as The Spiritualist, is a 1948 thriller film directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. Like the film noir Nightmare Alley released a year earlier, this film tells the story of a phoney spiritualist racket. The film (also sometimes called The Spiritualist) is prominently featured in Alton's book on cinematography Painting with Light.
[edit] Cast
The film stars Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell and Richard Carlson. Carole Landis was originally hired to play the part taken by Bari, but she committed suicide a few days before shooting began.
[edit] Plot
Two years after her husbands death Christine Faber thinks she hears her late husband calling out of the surf on the beach one night. She meets a tall dark man who seems to know all about her. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and her younger sister become enmeshed in the strange life of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper cruelness than he had in mind.
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