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13 December 1915 (USA) morePlot:
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader to replace the stolen money. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
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DVD Playhouse: April 2009 (From The Hollywood Interview. 11 April 2009, 11:58 AM, PDT)
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: April 7, 2009
(From Rope Of Silicon. 7 April 2009, 1:36 AM, PDT)
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Great, Dazzling Masterpiece! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Fannie Ward | ... | Edith Hardy | |
| Sessue Hayakawa | ... | Hishuru Tori (original release) / Haka Arakau (in 1918 re-release) | |
| 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 (as Judge Arthur H. Williams) |
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59 min (1994 alternate version)Country:
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USA:Not RatedFun Stuff
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The surviving copy is from the 1918 re-release, and so the date on the check and the date in the newspaper have been altered from 1915 to 1918 in an attempt to make it seem like a contemporary film. moreGoofs:
Continuity: According to the date on the check, the shooting occurred on September 17th. However, the next day's newspaper which reports the crime is dated April 27th. moreFAQ
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I watch this dazzling curio from l914 at least once a month and am never bored. My copy of "The Cheat" was purchased through Grapevine Video and is accompanied by an unforgettable piano score. The Kino edition has an unbearable orchestral score and ruins this Cecil B. DeMille masterpiece. I'm always fascinated by different things. Fannie Ward is electrifying as Edith Hardy, the vapid socialite who gambles away $10,000 of charity funds and seeks help from sensual Sessue Hayakawa, who asks that she becomes his mistress. When she reneges, he brands her with a white-hot iron. DeMille hired Ward after watching her at a party surrounded by a legion of male admirers. Already in her forties, she had kept her beauty legendary by primitive plastic surgery: injecting paraffin into her wrinkles. She proved to be a real life embodiment of bitchy Edith Hardy. She refused a fabulous collection of gowns that DeMille had made for her. She forced him to buy an even more expensive set of gowns made by her favorite French couturier. She created her own make-up. DeMille was horrified. But somehow it worked. This movie gives us a fascinating peek into the dying work of post-Victorian passions and fashions and looks. I mentioned this movie often in my book on old gay Hollywood, "The Kiss of King Kong," written under my pen name of Jason Fury. In his later years, Hayakawa said that he hated Fannie Ward passionately. His favorite scene in "The Cheat" is when he manhandles her and brands her with the iron. This movie moves at a feverish pace for its 58 minutes. Try to get the Grapevine Video version. A stunning classic to be cherished and watched again and again.