A seaside séance, a mysterious spiritualist, and the widow haunted by voices from beyond.
THE AMAZING MR. X
In his eyes, the threat of terror! In his hands, the power to destroy!
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...
The millionaire widow Christine Faber misses her husband Paul Faber, who died two years ago in a car explosion. Christine dates the lawyer Martin Abbott that wants to propose to marry her. While walking on the beach going to Martin's home, Christine overhears her deceased husband and stumbles upon the mysterious Alexis. He tells that he is a spiritualist and discloses things about Chris and Paul, fascinating Chris. She becomes obsessed to meet Alexis and her younger sister Janet Burke, Martin and a private detective investigate Alexis. However Janet is easily manipulated by Alexis and becomes also obsessed for him. One day, Martin and the detective break in Alexis's house during a seance and out of the blue, they see Paul.
Proof that séances and surf make a moody match.
This isn't your average séance. With Turhan Bey as the enigmatic Alexis, The Amazing Mr. X mixes spiritual showmanship and noir-tinged deceit on a foggy beach, where ghostly voices and romantic intrigue are all part of the act.
— SassyFlix Programmer
The Amazing Mr. X is a 1948 American thriller directed by Bernard Vorhaus about a widow who becomes entangled with a spiritualist after hearing her late husband's voice on the beach.
- Director
- Bernard Vorhaus
- Writers
- Muriel Roy Bolton, Ian McLellan Hunter, Crane Wilbur
- Release
- 1948
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Genres
- Thriller
- Also Known As
- The Spiritualist
Synopsis
Why Cult
The film fuses shadowy noir visuals with the supernatural world of séances and spiritualist trickery.
Turhan Bey plays Alexis, the charismatic and manipulative spiritualist who sets the plot’s eerie tone.
When a séance turns into more than a parlor trick, even the con man is caught off guard by the return of the supposedly dead husband.
The haunting atmosphere starts on a shadow-laden beach where the supernatural and the living collide.
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What is The Amazing Mr. X about? +
The Amazing Mr. X is a 1948 American thriller directed by Bernard Vorhaus about a widow who becomes entangled with a spiritualist after hearing her late husband's voice on the beach.
When was The Amazing Mr. X released? +
The Amazing Mr. X was released in 1948.
Who directed The Amazing Mr. X? +
Bernard Vorhaus directed The Amazing Mr. X.
How long is The Amazing Mr. X? +
The Amazing Mr. X has a runtime of 78 minutes.
What genre is The Amazing Mr. X? +
The Amazing Mr. X is a thriller.