The Amazing Mr. X
Jul 29, 1948 | IMDB 6.2
78 min Watch NowThriller, 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...
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Cry Terror!
Touch of Evil
Double Indemnity
The Third Man
Elevator to the Gallows
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