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The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
American film noir crime drama.
Wealthy socialite Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, Howard, finds a gun he’s bought. She kills him with it in front of the new man in her life, Lt. Ed Cullen, a homicide detective with the San Francisco police.
The twice-married Lois manages to manipulate Cullen into disposing of the murder weapon and moving the body. Cullen ends up assigned to investigate the case, assisted by kid brother Andy, who is new to the homicide division and delays his honeymoon to keep working on his first big case.
The Man Who Cheated Himself was restored and preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Film Noir Foundation in 2018.
| Directed by | Felix E. Feist |
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| Produced by | Jack M. Warner |
| Screenplay by | Seton I. Miller Philip MacDonald |
| Story by | Seton I. Miller |
| Starring | Lee J. Cobb Jane Wyatt John Dall |
| Music by | Louis Forbes |
| Cinematography | Russell Harlan |
| Edited by | David Weisbart |
| Color process | Black and white |
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Jack M. Warner Productions
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
