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The Cheat

The Cheat

6.0 (71)1915-12-1359m
Drama

Overview

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.

Budget
$17,311
Revenue
$137,365
Production
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Paramount Pictures

Tags & Hashtags

#gamblingdebt#self-defense#stolenmoney#deceivedhusband#attemptedrape#embezzlement#branding#spoiledwomen#raperevenge#flirtation#faithfulhusband#gunplay#courtroomdrama#branded#indecentproposal#brandingiron#ivory#asianman#privateloan#loandue#stockbroker#illegaltransfersoffunds#spoiledsocialite#gamble#ruthlessman#ivorymerchant

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Cast

Fannie Ward

Fannie Ward

Edith Hardy

Sessue Hayakawa

Sessue Hayakawa

Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]

Jack Dean

Jack Dean

Richard Hardy

James Neill

James Neill

Jones

Lucien Littlefield

Lucien Littlefield

Hardy's Secretary (uncredited)

Raymond Hatton

Raymond Hatton

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Crew

Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Writers
Hector Turnbull,Jeanie Macpherson
Producers
Jesse L. Lasky,Cecil B. DeMille
Cinematography
Alvin Wyckoff

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

June 6, 2022

6/10

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 a…