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 18741950, Wards reallife husband.

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 charitys treasurer.The next day, however, he reports that the money is gone. Hishituru Tori Hayakawa, a wealthy Japanese admirer changed in the films 1918 rerelease 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. ........

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