The Cheat
1915 | 59m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Cecil B. DeMille |
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| Writer: | Jeanie Macpherson, Hector Turnbull |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 13, 1915 |
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| Director: | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Writer: | Jeanie Macpherson, Hector Turnbull |
| Genres: | Drama |
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| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $137,365
Budget: $17,311 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Fannie Ward | Edith Hardy |
| Sessue Hayakawa | Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau] |
| Jack Dean | Richard Hardy |
| James Neill | Jones |
| Yutaka Abe | Tori's valet |
| Dana Ong | District attorney |
| Hazel Childers | Mrs. Reynolds |
| Arthur H. Williams | Courtroom judge |
| Dick La Reno | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) |
| Lucien Littlefield | Hardy's Secretary (uncredited) |
| Raymond Hatton | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Cecil B. DeMille | Director, Editor |
| Jeanie Macpherson | Scenario Writer, Writer |
| Alvin Wyckoff | Director of Photography |
| Hector Turnbull | Screenplay |
| Wilfred Buckland | Art Direction |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jesse L. Lasky | Executive Producer |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 5 |
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| 2024 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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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 ow ... n 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.