Cereal At Midnight

Turhan Bey has never been more charming than he is in 1948's The Amazing Mr. X , aka The Spiritualist , a gorgeously-shot atmospheric chiller from Poverty Row .  The plot concerns Alexis (Bey), a con artist who operates under the guise of a spiritualist, seeking to separate wealthy customers from their riches with the promise of communion with deceased loved ones, or glimpses of the future. Not unlike a stage magician, he employs sleight-of-hand and more than a few tricks of the trade in his profession, which we're allowed to see fairly early in the film. He's a charlatan, but he's also played with such ageless European charm by Turhan Bey, an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech-Jewish descent (he was nicknamed "Turkish Delight" because of his smooth qualities) that we can't help but find ourselves rooting for a character that would, in any other movie, be the villain.  Alexis seeks to work his unique magic on a widow (played by Lynn Bari, a curvy act...

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