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Genre
  
Film-Noir, Thriller

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

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Director
  
Music director
  
Alexander Laszlo

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
July 29, 1948 (1948-07-29)

Screenplay
  
Crane Wilbur, Ian McLellan Hunter, Muriel Roy Bolton

Cast
  
(Alexis), (Christine Faber),
Cathy O'Donnell
(Janet Burke), (Martin Abbott),
Donald Curtis
(Paul Faber), (Emily)

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The Amazing Mr. X also known as The Spiritualist is a 1948 American horror thriller film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. Like Nightmare Alley (1947), this film tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket. The film is prominently featured in Alton's book on cinematography Painting with Light (1949).

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The film stars Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, and Richard Carlson. Eagle-Lion Films signed a contract with Carole Landis for the part played by Bari, but Landis committed suicide a few days before shooting began. The film is in the public domain.

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Plot

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Two years after her husband's death, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) thinks she hears her late husband (Donald Curtis) calling out of the surf on the beach one night. She meets a tall dark man named Alexis (Turhan Bey) who seems to know all about her.

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After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and her younger sister (Cathy O'Donnell) become enmeshed in the strange life of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper devilry than he had in mind.

Reception

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At previews, audiences found parts of the film to be funny, resulting in unintended laughs.

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