Sunday June 11, 1:30pm The Egyptian
'The Man Who Cheated Himself', follows the popular "bad cop noir" theme, starring Lee J. Cobb as Police Lieutenant Ed Cullin. When his lady friend Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt), shoots her husband while the Lieutenant is 'visiting', he confronts the choice of coming clean or covering up, "I didn't know what I was doing! You know the truth!" "The truth can get you twenty years!" Cullin's kid brother Andy (John Dall) is new to homicide division and does his best to solve the crime while the Lieutenant tries to cover his tracks. "How am I doing?" " OK kid. Do any better and I'd be out of a job." The film makes use of locations in and around San Francisco including the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, Telegraph Hill and Fort Point. The complex plot twists involving the gun, its disposal, reappearance and an errant slug are particularly entertaining.
'The Man Who Cheated Himself', follows the popular "bad cop noir" theme, starring Lee J. Cobb as Police Lieutenant Ed Cullin. When his lady friend Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt), shoots her husband while the Lieutenant is 'visiting', he confronts the choice of coming clean or covering up, "I didn't know what I was doing! You know the truth!" "The truth can get you twenty years!" Cullin's kid brother Andy (John Dall) is new to homicide division and does his best to solve the crime while the Lieutenant tries to cover his tracks. "How am I doing?" " OK kid. Do any better and I'd be out of a job." The film makes use of locations in and around San Francisco including the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, Telegraph Hill and Fort Point. The complex plot twists involving the gun, its disposal, reappearance and an errant slug are particularly entertaining.