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Shot on location in San Francisco and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Dall and Jane Wyatt, The man who cheated himself tells the story of a policeman who pushes the boundaries of the law by covering up a crime committed by his lover. He then finds himself assigned to investigate that very same crime, along with a new rookie partner who is determined to track down the culprit.
The film is also available elsewhere on the archive, as a 2.2GB MPEG2 or on a 7.3GB ISO DVD image. The smaller file offered here is intended to make the film more accessible to people otherwise discouraged by larger versions. Both the XViD/AVI file offered here and the MPEG2 mentioned above seem derived from the exact same print and show the same artifacts, except for the fact that the XViD is a progressive (24fps) transfer while the MPEG2 is a telecined (30fps) transfer. Since the film wasn't well-preserved, the artifacts unfortunately include missing frames, white dots, blinking vertical lines and low crackling/scratching sounds.
External links IMDB page American Film Institute entry Wikipedia page Noir of the Week review
Under the hood VIDEO: XVID, 640x480, 12bpp, 23.976fps, 1093.5kbps AUDIO: MP3, 48000Hz, 2 channels, 16-bit, 128kbps
Original copyright registration: THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1950. 81 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 30Dec50; LP697.
Copyright renewal registration: none
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Film noir
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Jack M. Warner
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed