“The Amazing Mr. X”, also known as “The Spiritualist”, is a 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). 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.
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. 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 cruelness than he had in mind.
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Directed by Bernard Vorhaus, produced by Benjamin Stoloff, written by Crane Wilbur, Muriel Roy Bolton and Ian McLellan Hunter, starring Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, and Richard Carlson.
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Source: “The Amazing Mr. X” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 10 January 2013. Web. 12 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Mr._X.
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the lawyer in the commercial looks so much like Nixon (poor guy!)
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Excellent. Thank you
A great movie. Alexis was played by a man who I must read about. I've seen him in a couple of other films and he is a mezmerizing character. I loved the end when he allowed the beautiful crow to fly to freedom………nice!!
I love old movies, but I can't get into this because it's so confounded dark!!
enjoyed what i could see of it. talk about a LITERAL film noire! but thanks anyway…
Thank you for sharing 🙂
There's a movie my grandma used to watch. I remember the ending fairly well. A man has weird looking eyes. He can see through objects and he ends up looking at a helicopter through the roof of his car. Can someone help me out here?
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I just watched it here and just giving my appreciation to the uploader of the video.
http://www.alluc.com/stream/The+Amazing+Mr.+X+1948
Try watching this with subtitles, fucking hilarious.
this movie really sucked. i guess all black and white movies arent good after all.
Great movie !!!
I downloaded this
i love black and white movies, its better than the modern dark shit.