The Charlatan (1929)
62 min
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they're having at her house. What the woman doesn't realize is that the "fortune-teller" is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the "charlatan" is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.
- Release date
- April 13, 1929
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Holmes Herbert as Count Merlin - aka Peter Dwight
- Margaret Livingston as Florence Talbot
- Rockliffe Fellowes as Richard Talbot
- Philo McCullough as Dr. Walter Paynter
- Anita Garvin as Mrs. Paynter
- Crauford Kent as District Attorney Frank Deering
- Rose Tapley as Mrs. Deering
- Fred MacKaye as Jerry Starke
- Dorothy Gould as Ann Talbot
- Wilson Benge as The Talbots' Butler
Crew
- George Melford · Director
- Ernest Pascal · Writer
- Leonard Praskins · Writer
- J.G. Hawks · Writer
- Robert N. Lee · Writer
- George Robinson · Cinematographer
- Robert Jahns · Editor
- Maurice Pivar · Editor