The Cheat
French	Forfaiture
Directed by	Marcel L'Herbier
Written by	Jean-Georges Auriol Jacques Companéez Herbert Juttke Jacques Natanson Hector Turnbull
Produced by	Michael Salkind Pierre Braunberger Ayres d'Aguiar Roger Richebé
Starring	Victor Francen Sessue Hayakawa Louis Jouvet
Cinematography	Eugen Schüfftan
Edited by	Pierre de Hérain Marie Le Bars
Music by	Michel Michelet
Production company	Société du Cinéma du Panthéon
Distributed by	Gray-Film
Release date	24 November 1937 (1937-11-24)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Cheat (French: Forfaiture) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa and Louis Jouvet. ^[1] It is a remake of the American silent film The Cheat by Cecil B. DeMille.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris.

Plot

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Main cast

• Victor Francen as Pierre Moret
• Sessue Hayakawa as Prince Hu-Long
• Louis Jouvet as Valfar
• Lise Delamare as Denise Moret
• Lucas Gridoux as Tang-Si
• Ève Francis as Mrs. Curtis
• Lucien Nat as Maître Ribeyre
• Pierre Magnier as Le Président de la société
• Jean Brochard as Félicien
• Sylvia Bataille as Ming

References

Bibliography

• Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.

External links

• The Cheat at IMDb
• The Cheat at AllMovie
• The Cheat at the TCM Movie Database

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