{"id":30825,"date":"2022-11-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30825"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:56:05","slug":"the-man-who-cheated-himself-1950-starring-lee-j-cobb-jane-wyatt-john-dall-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30825","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Man Who Cheated Himself&#8221; (1950) Starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt &#038; John Dall \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z110322zview_manhocheatedhimself.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"726\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Man Who Cheated Himself <\/strong><\/em>(1950)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Felix E. Feist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Seton I. Miller, Philip MacDonald<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard, Tito Vuolo, Marjorie Bennett, Alan Wells, Morgan Farley,<\/strong> and <strong>Howard Negley.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 For a woman like this &#8230; a man would do anything &#8230; even murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andy Cullen (Dall) newly promoted to Detective is assigned to partner with his brother, Lt. Ed Cullen (Cobb).\u00a0 Andy is a hot shot looking to prove himself.\u00a0 Their first case involves the murder of Howard Frazer, found shot dead at the airport.\u00a0 An older couple witnessed a man driving away from the body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ed says the case looks like a robbery gone wrong, but Andy&#8217;s not ready to jump to that conclusion.\u00a0 A few things don&#8217;t feel right.\u00a0 After Ed and Andy talk to the dead man&#8217;s wife, Lois (Wyatt), Andy is even more sure something&#8217;s not on the level.\u00a0 What Andy doesn&#8217;t know is that Lois killed her husband and Ed moved the body from her house to the airport.\u00a0 Ed&#8217;s in an affair with Lois and thought he could cover up the crime.\u00a0 But with Andy on the case and digging deeper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee J. Cobb&#8217;s Ed Cullen is a cynical cop who knows his affair won&#8217;t turn into anything more.\u00a0 Yet, he feels compelled to help his lover cover up the murder.\u00a0 The screenwriters do an excellent job of making it look like things can be explained in a way that gets the case moving away from Lois, but then Andy finds another clue that takes it closer.\u00a0 Kudos to screenwriters Seton I. Miller and Philip MacDonald, as well as director Felix E. Feist for creating a scene where a book&#8217;s binding creates tension and suspense.\u00a0 The final scene with Lois talking to her attorney and then getting a light from Cullen is worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">The Man Who Cheated Himself <\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z110322zview_manhocheatedhimself2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) Director:\u00a0 Felix E. Feist Screenplay:\u00a0 Seton I. Miller, Philip MacDonald Stars: Lee J. 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