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The Cheat
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
- Original title
- The Cheat
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $17,311
- Revenue
- $137,365
CinemaSerf
Jun 6, 2022 · via TMDB
Vaudevillian Fannie Ward made her cinematic debut here as "Edith", a rather shallow woman married to Jack Dean ("Richard"), a stockbroker. She lives for life's fripperies, and when he starts bemoaning the amounts of money she is frittering away on luxuries, she decides to procure some cash of her own by embezzling $10,000 from a charity she runs. Desperate to return the money, she turns to the distinctly shady Burmese ivory trader "Hishiru Tori" (Sessue Hayakawa) who offers her a deal - but at an horrible price... It has a very theatrical style to it, this production, but that's not a bad thing. It helps us to focus on the characters - with Ward, and particularly the sinister "Tori" - working well to create the atmospheric, shadowy - almost menacing, look of the film. The use of light and shade is also used to good effect for that purpose too, and although the ending runs a bit to melodrama, this story of avarice and repentance is certainly worth an hour of anyone's time.
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Fannie Ward
Edith Hardy
Sessue Hayakawa
Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]
Jack Dean
Richard Hardy
James Neill
Jones
Lucien Littlefield
Hardy's Secretary (uncredited)
Raymond Hatton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Alvin Wyckoff
Director of Photography
Cecil B. DeMille
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Editor
Jesse L. Lasky
Executive Producer
Cecil B. DeMille
Producer
Jeanie Macpherson
Scenario Writer
Jeanie Macpherson
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