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The Man Who Cheated Himself

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A woman (Jane Wyatt) in the process of divorce shoots her husband and gets her police lieutenant boyfriend (Lee J. Cobb) to help hide the body.
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Jayne Nelson Radio Times May 23
3/5
Still, it's fun watching the dodgy detective trying to keep his scrappy sibling off the scent. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand 12/03/2022
Director Felix Feist, a noir veteran, directs this independently-made film noir shot on location in San Francisco with brisk efficiency, moving it along its paces and taking the camera out of the studio and into the city. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 11/19/2022
3/4
...a terrific premise that is, for the most part, employed to engaging and thoroughly satisfying effect by Feist... Go to Full Review
Scott Nye Battleship Pretension 12/08/2020
Fantastic by-the-numbers noir. Go to Full Review
Mattie Lucas From the Front Row 06/03/2019
3/4
Under Feist's watchful eye, the film takes the hard-boiled noir and turns it into visual poetry. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 10/02/2018
4/4
Thoroughly satisfying film noir. Go to Full Review
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nick s 12/13/2024 Well structured story and a capable cast. This movie starts off well, hooking you early with an intriguing setup. See more Billy L 08/03/2023 awesome film .. todays films can't compare See more Bill B 05/28/2023 Surprisingly, I very much enjoyed this. Cobb plays his character with a stoic realism that others might have overplayed. Dall was a fine actor that was underutilized in his career, and Wyatt was terrific. Good plot. See more Deke P 03/24/2023 1950. Great critics reviews! But middling current audience reviews cuz they don't appreciate B&W & old movies in old style. Good murder suspense crime detective drama. Good views of 1950 Frisco. Note to sef, watch yet again and pay ticular attention to large middle section. Watched it 3.23.23 on the tv screen. Saw it again, 7.9.23. Also stqrred JANE WYATT, the mother on the old FATHER KNOWS BEST tv series. She glookn in 19fiddy. See more don k 07/17/2022 Once we get past the romantically drippy dialog of the two leading couples, the movie begins to wind and unwind in a tense back-and-forth dance between the two leading men, Lee J Cobb and John Dall. As the tension builds, so does the cinematography. Truly outstanding uses of black and white throughout, and each frame of the final scenes at Fort Point is spectacular—even Hitchcock would have been awed. The plot is a bit too obvious and the dialog too conventional for today's tastes, but the direction, sets, location (San Francisco), editing and Cobb's performance rise to timelessness. The cinematography, which masterfully stitches all scenes together, swells to uncommon artfulness with a daring sublimity—hence, the high star rating. See more 07/01/2021 The comically bad colorization of the version I saw made it hard to judge the film objectively. If you're going to watch this, find a print in the original black and white. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman (Jane Wyatt) in the process of divorce shoots her husband and gets her police lieutenant boyfriend (Lee J. Cobb) to help hide the body.
Director
Felix E. Feist
Producer
Jack M. Warner
Production Co
Phoenix Film
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 26, 1950, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 16, 2016
Runtime
1h 26m
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