Supernatural & Occult, Psychological, Genre Hybrids
The Amazing Mr. X
1948
In his eyes, the threat of terror! In his hands, the power to destroy!
Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
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On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
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- Director
- Bernard Vorhaus
- Written by
- Ian McLellan Hunter, Muriel Roy Bolton, Crane Wilbur
- Produced by
- Benjamin Stoloff
- Composer
- Alexander Laszlo
- Cinematographer
- John Alton
- Editor
- Norman Colbert
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Language
- English
- Also known as
- The Spiritualist
- TMDB
- 6.2/10 (51 votes)
- IMDb
- 6.4/10 (2,312 votes)
Released July 29, 1948
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