Movie
The Amazing Mr. X
Overview
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...
Details
- Release date
- 1948-07-29
- Runtime
- 78 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Ben Stoloff Productions, Eagle-Lion Films (US)
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Turhan Bey as Alexis
- Lynn Bari as Christine Faber
- Cathy O'Donnell as Janet Burke
- Richard Carlson as Martin Abbott
- Donald Curtis as Paul Faber
- Virginia Gregg as Emily
- Norma Varden as Wealthy looking woman
- Harry Mendoza as Hoffman
Crew
- Bernard Vorhaus - Director
- Ian McLellan Hunter - Screenplay
- Muriel Roy Bolton - Screenplay
- Crane Wilbur - Story
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