2012-07-25

Public domain film noir: The Amazing Mr X (1948)

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Director: Bernard Vorhaus

Writers: Crane Wilbur (original story), Muriel Roy Bolton and Ian McLellan Hunter (screenplay)

Cinematographer: John Alton




Plot: Two years after her husband's death, Christine Faber thinks she hears her late husband calling out of the surf on the beach one night. She meets a tall dark man named Alexis who seems to know all about her. Christine and her younger sister 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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