The Man Who Cheated Himself
The Man Who Cheated Himself is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt and John Dall.
Plot
Wealthy socialite Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, Howard, finds a gun he had 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. Cullen takes control, discarding the 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.
More details
| author | Philip MacDonald Seton I. Miller |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | San Francisco |
| director | Felix E. Feist |
| editor | David Weisbart |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | abandon arrest connect escape plan golden gate bridge homicide detective kid brother kill move |
| musicBy | Louis Forbes |
| producer | Jack M. Warner |
| productionCompany | Jack M. Warner Productions |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | film noir noir |