TY  - ADVS
AU  - DeMille,Cecil B.
AU  - Lasky,Jesse L.
AU  - Turnbull,Hector
AU  - MacPherson,Jeanie
AU  - Wyckoff,Alvin
AU  - Ward,Fannie
AU  - Hayakawa,Sesshū
AU  - Dean,Jack
ED  - Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
ED  - Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
ED  - AFI/Paramount Collection (Library of Congress)
TI  - The Cheat
AV  - FGE 7140-7142 (viewing print) 
PY  - 1918///
CY  - United States
PB  - Paramount Pictures Corp.
N1  - A 1918 rerelease of the 1915 film (copyright: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.; 8Dec15; LU7164), with the ethnicity of the merchant, played by Sessue Hayakawa, changed from Japanese to Burmese; A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to an ivory trader to replace the stolen money. Her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, but the trader won't take it back, branding her shoulder with the sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame, and faces trial for attempted murder; Part of summary from the Internet movie database; MAVIS 1701; The cheat; Not viewed; Source used: American Film Institute catalog, feature films, 1911-20; Internet movie database, Sep 25, 2008
ER  -