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The Cheat (1915)
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
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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.
Rated NR | Length 59 minutes
Actors
Fannie Ward | Sessue Hayakawa | Jack Dean | James Neill | Yutaka Abe | Dana Ong | Hazel Childers | Arthur H. Williams | Dick La Reno | Lucien Littlefield | Raymond Hatton
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/02/2018 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
At just under and hour this feels somewhere between a short and a full length feature. Well shot and great story that moves along at a good pace. The added score composed in 1994 was a good fit as well. Obviously some racial stereotyping going on here but not nearly as overtly as THE BIRTH OF A NATION.
Sessue Hayakawa had a long career as an actor and it’s easy to see why as he’s the best thing on the screen in this. His features stand out well in black and white and he manages to get the essence of his character across quite well and with some depth which I would think would’ve been hard to pull off in 1915.
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