The Amazing Mr. X

The Amazing Mr. X

In his eyes, the threat of terror! In his hands, the power to destroy!

1948 · 78 min · ★ 6.2 · Thriller, Horror

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...

Directed by Bernard Vorhaus · Written by Muriel Roy Bolton

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