The Cheat

About The Cheat

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.

Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat is a 1915 drama film. Its themes are courtroom drama, stolen money, attempted rape, and gambling debt.

Fannie Ward stars as Edith Hardy, Sessue Hayakawa as Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau], Jack Dean as Richard Hardy, and James Neill as Jones. At 59 minutes long, it arrived in December 1915.

The screenplay is by Hector Turnbull and Jeanie Macpherson. In the United States it streams on FlixFling, fuboTV, and MGM+ Amazon Channel.

Thelma & Louise, Honeymoon in Vegas, and The Curse of Downers Grove make useful companions to The Cheat, all filed under self-defense. TMDB voters put it at 6.0 out of 10 across 74 votes and it carries a NR rating.