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The Dream Cheater (1920)
Directed by Ernest C. Warde
Overview
An adaptation of Balzac’s novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac’s sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.
Length 60 minutes
Actors
J. Warren Kerrigan | Wedgwood Nowell | Alice Wilson | Joseph J. Dowling | Tom Guise | Fritzi Brunette | Aggie Herring | Sam Sothern