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The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
The Amazing Mr. X (1948) is a 78-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Case Files (CH 9) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
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About The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
The Amazing Mr. X, also known as The Spiritualist, is a 1948 American horror thriller film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. The film tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket.
The night she is to meet her boyfriend Martin, Christine Faber hears the sound of her late husband Paul's voice calling out. She walks outside her beachfront home to investigate. There, she encounters a stranger named Alexis, a spiritualist who seems to know all about her. When Martin arrives at the beach, Christine turns to see him, and Alexis seems to disappear. Later, Martin proposes to her, and she accepts.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Amazing Mr. X (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Credits
- Directed by: Bernard Vorhaus
- Cast includes: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
- Country: United States
Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article
Airs on
- Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror TV
- Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV
Rights & source
- Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
- Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
- License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
- Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
- Source: Internet Archive
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