| 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 |
| Release date(s) | 29 July 1948 |
| Running time | 78 min |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
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 phony spiritualist racket. The film (also sometimes called The Spiritualist) is prominently featured in Alton's book on cinematography Painting with Light.
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 Landis committed suicide a few days before shooting began.
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.
