Film · Paramount · 1915
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The Cheat
25Leave it.
DeMille's hit brands a woman and draws the man as a racial threat, so it stays off.
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The review
Adults only. I would not leave this on with children in the house. A society woman borrows from an ivory merchant. When she will not pay as he wants, he brands her. Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward. DeMille had a hit on his own books, and the brand is why people still name it. The villain is drawn as a racial threat. I would say that before anyone treats the fame as a reason to press play.
I can follow a debt. I will not dress what he does to her as nerve, or as a thrill, or as something she wanted. What you walk out with is a scare about a neighbor and a woman used as the proof. A figure on DeMille's books is not kindness. If adults watch, they can keep the lights up and name the drawing. That is the condition.
Journal
Keep The Cheat in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 25. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
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Consider this
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
38 instead of 25
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money is still a drama film, and it scores 38 instead of 25. What you gain is truth: The title tells a true thing, which is rare on a poster.
The eight
- 4Industry
An ivory merchant's trade is the lever; her social borrowing is not a job.
- 3Household
A society woman's private debt becomes the scandal, not a life anyone keeps.
- 3Piety
She refuses his terms; the picture spends that refusal on a racial scare.
- 4Courage
Refusing the payment he wants costs her, and the film banks on that cost.
- 1Republic
Hayakawa's merchant is drawn as a racial threat, not a neighbor under law.
- 2Temperance
The borrowing starts it, and the brand is why the hit is still named.
- 2Truth
A real debt sits inside a lie that a man's race is the danger.
- 1Stewardship
What remains is a remembered brand and a picture that is not for a family.
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