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The Cheat

1915·US
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Drama

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.

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.

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Cast

Fannie Ward

Fannie Ward

Edith Hardy

Sessue Hayakawa

Sessue Hayakawa

Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]

Jack Dean

Jack Dean

Richard Hardy

James Neill

James Neill

Jones

Y

Yutaka Abe

Tori's valet

D

Dana Ong

District attorney

H

Hazel Childers

Mrs. Reynolds

A

Arthur H. Williams

Courtroom judge

D

Dick La Reno

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Lucien Littlefield

Lucien Littlefield

Hardy's Secretary (uncredited)

Raymond Hatton

Raymond Hatton

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Crew

Alvin Wyckoff

cinematographer

Hector Turnbull

writer

Jeanie Macpherson

writer

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