The Fat Man (film)
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| Directed by | William Castle |
| Produced by | Aubrey Schenck |
| Screenplay by |
Harry Essex Leonard Lee |
| Story by | Leonard Lee |
| Based on | radio series created by Dashiell Hammett |
| Starring | J. Scott Smart |
| Music by |
Hans J. Salter Frank Skinner |
| Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
| Edited by | Edward Curtiss |
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Universal Pictures
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Fat Man is a 1951 American crime film noir directed by William Castle. It is based on a radio drama of the same name, with J. Scott Smart reprising his role as Runyan, a detective.
The cast includes Rock Hudson and Julie London.
Portly hard-boiled private detective Runyan is hired by dental nurse Adams to investigate the unexplained murder of her boss. Suspicion falls on disappeared patient Clark, who had been helped by probable gangster Gordon. Runyan finds Boyd, Clark’s former lover and briefly his wife, who reveals that Clark had done time in jail. The police tell Runyan it was for robbery of half a million unrecovered dollars. In jail, Clark had a cellmate Deets, with whom he shared everything. On release, Deets had claimed Clark’s share of the loot from Gordon and had promised to eliminate Clark, whose corpse he left in a burnt-out truck. When he realised Clark had been having dental treatment, so his teeth could be identified, he killed first the unfortunate dentist and then the nurse as well. Runyan tracks him down and in a final shoot-out he meets his end.
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