The Cheaters (1930 film)

The Cheaters is a 1930 Australian silent film directed by Paulette McDonagh and starring Isabel McDonagh professionally known as Marie Lorraine. Phyllis McDonagh worked as art director. The McDonagh sisters made a number of selffunded films together in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

An embezzler, Bill Marsh Arthur Greenaway, works with his daughter Paula Marie Lorraine, who serves as a bait, robbing wealthy people. Bill also seeks revenge on a businessman, John Travers John Faulkner, but Paula falls in love with Travers son Lee Josef Bambach and begins to have doubts about her life of crime. Eventually Paula reforms and marries Lee.The film was shot as a silent movie in 1929 but had trouble securing a release. The McDonaghs decided to adapt it into a partial talkie and shot some additional scenes in Melbourne in 1930 using an improvised soundondisc system. These scenes included a fancy dress party sequence and a romantic scene where Paula sings a song to Lee. ........

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