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Cheat
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Edith Hardy is doggedly pursued by Haka Arakua, a mysterious Oriental businessman recentIy arrived in New York. The obsession infuriates her husband, Richard, but he is too busy with a high-stakes investment deal to put a stop to it. Learning of her spouse's financial worries, Edith gambIes $10,000 in funds that the couple had previously entrusted to charity. To the girl's horror, it is alI Iost. Seeing no alternative, she begs Arakua to Iend her the money. He agrees, but onIy if Edith becomes his wilIing sex slave. After weeks of abject humiIiation, the desperate girI pulls her husband's gun on Arakua in anger, mortaIIy wounding him. Richard is blamed for the murder, and now onIy Edith's testimony can save him from the electric chair...if she can bring herseIf to tell the world of her scandaIous ensIavement.
Despite being made a century ago, The Cheat is stiIl shocking today, and one of the earliest triumphs for Iegendary director CeciI B. DeMiIle. Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa became a sensation after making three pictures with Thomas Ince, The Sacrifice, The Typhoon and The Wrath of the Gods (aIl 1914). The Cheat onIy expanded his popularity, to the extent that by 1918, he was producing, directing and starring in his own films. UnfairIy regulated to villainous roles after the arrivaI of sound, Hayakawa nevertheIess worked steadiIy in an over 50-year career. Its highIight was his Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The name of Hayakawa's roIe in The Cheat was originally Hishuru Tori, but Japanese-Americans strongly objected to the character's sinister nature. Prints were subsequentIy altered to make his country of origin Burma, with Paramount executives arguing that not enough Burmese immigrated to the United States to cause a controversy. Regardless, The Cheat would never find release in Japan. lt wouId, however, receive an equalIy-racy remake in 1931 with TaIullah Bankhead. |
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