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The Cheat (1915)

The Cheat (1915)

Drama
Release Date: 1915, December 13
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Countries: United States of America
Production: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Paramount Pictures
Cast: Lucien Littlefield, Sessue Hayakawa, James Neill, Fannie Ward, Raymond Hatton, Dick La Reno, Jack Dean, Dana Ong, Hazel Childers, Arthur H. Williams

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.

Keywords:

stolen money courtroom drama attempted rape self-defense flirtation gambling debt lost money deceived husband ruthless man indecent proposal embezzlement stock broker faithful husband rape revenge loan due asian man gunplay branding spoiled women private loan spoiled socialite ivory gamble branded branding iron illegal transfers of funds ivory merchant