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The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
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26 December 1950 (USA)
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A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case. full summary | add synopsis
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The Other Great "Fort Point" Movie -desperately needs restoring
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lee J. Cobb | ... | Lt. Ed Cullen | |
| Jane Wyatt | ... | Lois Frazer | |
| John Dall | ... | Andy Cullen | |
| Lisa Howard | ... | Janet Cullen | |
| Harlan Warde | ... | Howard Frazer | |
| Tito Vuolo | ... | Pietro Capa | |
| Charles Arnt | ... | Ernest Quimby (as Charles E. Arnt) | |
| Marjorie Bennett | ... | Muriel Quimby | |
| Alan Wells | ... | Nito Capa | |
| Mimi Aguglia | ... | Mrs. Capa | |
| Bud Wolfe | ... | Officer Blair | |
| Morgan Farley | ... | Rushton | |
| Howard Negley | ... | Detective Olson | |
| William Gould | ... | Doc Munson | |
| Art Millan | ... | United Airlines Clerk |
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81 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Police Lt. Ed Cullen:
[to Ed] Better learn one thing: never take a case to bed.
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| A good copy for restoration ? | danielj_old999 |
| FYI the final location shot is fort point under gg bridge | danielj_old999 |
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This is one of the better second tier film noir .... within its limits, it seems to me rock solid: performances,(save one), script, photography, and is surely commensurate with excellent Fleischer B's of the same period such as "Armored Car Robbery"...however perhaps not quite in the same league as the latter's "Narrow Margin"...there are these kinds of films in which, under obvious budgetary circumstances, it is hard to imagine what could be done better, with the exception of Jane Wyatt, who does indeed give a horrible performance...but hey, that's why it's a B...and one often wonders, given more money in the budget, whether the whole thing would have been somehow ruined...this last seems to be to be the best way of defining the undefinable "B" that I have come across. John Dall lends that undefinable air of perversity, of which he was the acknowledged master, and, to the viewer's delight, seems wonderfully and profoundly miscast as a policeman. Dall makes this worth seeing.