The Cheat (1915 film)

The Cheat is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean (1874-1950), Ward's real-life husband.

In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Plot

Socialite Edith Hardy (Ward) has extravagant tastes. Her stockbroker husband Richard (Dean), with all of his money tied up in a very promising investment, insists she send back an expensive dress she has just bought. When she asks an acquaintance what he could do with $10,000, he assures her he could double it overnight. She gives him the Red Cross funds entrusted to her as the charity's treasurer.

The next day, however, he reports that the money is gone. Hishituru Tori (Hayakawa), a wealthy Japanese admirer (changed in the film's 1918 re-release to a Burmese ivory king named "Haka Arakau"), overhears and offers her a loan, if she is willing to pay the price of her virtue.

The same day, her husband is jubilant that his gamble has paid off. She asks him for $10,000, which she explains is to cover her losses playing bridge. She visits Tori and tries to pay him back, but he refuses to cancel their bargain. She threatens to kill herself, but he is so confident that she is bluffing that he hands her a pistol. When she continues to resist his advances, he subdues her and brands her on the back of the shoulder with the seal with which he marks all of his property. Edith grabs the gun and shoots him in the shoulder, then flees. Richard, having followed her after she left their home, finds Tori and picks up the gun. He is held for the police by Tori's servants. When questioned, he confesses to the crime to protect his wife.

Cheat (disambiguation)

A cheat is someone who engages in cheating.

Cheat may also refer to:

Places

  • Cheat River, a tributary of the Monongahela River in West Virginia, the United States
  • Cheat Lake, a reservoir on the Cheat River
  • Cheat Mountain, one of the highest mountains in the Alleghenies
  • Games or gaming

  • Cheat (game), a card game
  • A cheat code, a hidden means of gaining an advantage in a computer or video game
  • Cheat, an alternate term for defection in the prisoner's dilemma in game theory
  • Film and TV

    Film

  • The Cheat (1912 film), a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe
  • The Cheat (1915 film), a 1915 Cecil B. DeMille film
  • The Cheat (1923 film), a 1923 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky
  • The Cheat (1931 film), a remake of the 1915 film starring Tallulah Bankhead
  • Cheats (film), a 2002 comedy film starring Matthew Lawrence and Mary Tyler Moore
  • Television

  • Cheat!, was a television show on the G4 network
  • The Cheat (1923 film)

    The Cheat (1923) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and is a remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 hit feature using the same script by Hector Turnbull and Jeanie MacPherson. This version stars Pola Negri and was directed by George Fitzmaurice.

    Cast

  • Pola Negri - Carmelita De Cordoba
  • Jack Holt - Dudley Drake
  • Charles de Rochefort - Claude Mace a/k/a Prince Rao-Singh (as Charles De Roche)
  • Dorothy Cumming - Lucy Hodge
  • Robert Schable - Jack Hodge
  • Charles A. Stevenson - Horace Drake
  • Helen Dunbar - Duenna
  • Richard Wayne - Defense Attorney
  • Guy Oliver - District Attorney
  • Edward Kimball - Judge
  • Charles Farrell - Bit part
  • Preservation status

    This film is now considered a lost film.

    References

    External links

  • The Cheat at the Internet Movie Database
  • The Cheat synopsis at AllMovie

  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    The Cheat

    by: Blueline Medic

    Its almost a shock, this lint I keep dusting off, am I here?
    Am I being covered up?
    And after being ripped out from what little wall space I had found.
    Small charm I was for her?
    I suppose I had to wear off,
    See our errands slide through traffic crawl.
    There hers more than mine if they were ever mine at all
    But there's nothing I wouldn't do.
    No trouble ever too much.
    I'm as happy as a slave, as I can be in a bed apart.
    That's why I am here, understand?
    Hold me, disenchanted as I am.
    What loyalty wont give me
    I'm going to take whatever there is in hell I can.
    Moralise, by all means philosophis
    But if in turning out to be a lengthy term with her.
    Why say anything at all to her?
    A small indiscretion?
    Is it a break in concentration?
    I guess there's no nice way to need to say that it ever happened.
    I can be in this bed apart, was never here understand?
    Hold me, bastard that I am.
    What loyalty had got me;
    I'm going to get whatever there was in heaven she stopped giving me.
    Look where loyalty has got me.




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