The Amazing Mr. X

Next up is 1948's The Amazing Mr. X in Mill Creek Entertainment's Horror Classics 50 movie set.  The blurb in the insert reads (spoiler alert!):

The Amazing Mr. X
Starring Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Donald Curtis
(1948) B&W Unrated 

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.

Other than the name of actor Turhan Bey who I recognized from the Universal classic The Mummy's Tomb (1942), I had no idea whatsoever what this movie was about going in.  That said, overall I thought this was an enjoyably atmospheric melodrama--call it a metaphysical noir--that reminded me more than anything of some forgotten Val Lewton film.