The Cheat (1915)

Name: The Cheat
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1915-12-13
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill

59 min★ 6.5 · 3,103 votes

Drama
Romance

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.

Release date: December 13, 1915
Country of origin: United States
Budget: $17,311
Box office: $137,365

Cast

Fannie Ward as Edith Hardy
Sessue Hayakawa as Hishuru Tori (original release)
Sessue Hayakawa as Haka Arakau (in 1918 re-release)
Jack Dean as Richard Hardy
James Neill as Jones
Yutaka Abe as Tori's Valet
Dana Ong as District Attorney
Hazel Childers as Mrs. Reynolds
Arthur H. Williams as Courtroom Judge
Raymond Hatton as Courtroom Spectator
Dick La Reno as Courtroom Spectator

Crew

Hector Turnbull · Writer
Jeanie Macpherson · Writer
Cecil B. DeMille · Producer
Robert Israel · Composer
Alvin Wyckoff · Cinematographer