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The Cheat

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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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Status
Released
Budget
$17.3K
Box office
$137.4K
Language
EN
  • gambling debt
  • self-defense
  • stolen money
  • deceived husband
  • attempted rape
  • embezzlement
  • branding
  • spoiled women
  • rape revenge
  • flirtation
  • faithful husband
  • gunplay

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR13 Dec 1915

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The Cheat was released on 13 December 1915.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/6/2022

    6/10

    Vaudevillian Fannie Ward made her cinematic debut here as "Edith", a rather shallow woman married to Jack Dean ("Richard"), a stockbroker. She lives for life's fripperies, and when he starts bemoaning the amounts of money she is frittering away on luxuries, she decides to procure some cash of her own by embezzling $10,000 from a charity she runs. Desperate to return the money, she turns to the distinctly shady Burmes…

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