The Amazing Mr. X

(1948)

78 minutes

Horror / Mystery / Suspense 

Directed by Bernard Vorhaus

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

A phony mystic makes a comfortable living by putting on séances for gullible women to scam them of their money.  His most recent victim is a young widow who had lost her husband just two years prior to him meeting her.  Things start out normal for our fake swami on his latest scam until the ‘deceased’ husband shows up and threatens to expose the mystic unless a large sum of money is paid.