5.7
The Cheat (1915)
December 13, 191559mEN
6.0
70 votes
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.
Director
Cecil B. DeMilleWhere to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
No Language
Budget
$17K
Revenue
$137K
Production Companies
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play CompanyParamount Pictures
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
6.0Vaudevillian 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 an horrible price... It has a very theatrical style to it, this production, but that's not a bad thin…
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