The Cheat
A Beautiful Girl- Gambling with one man for the love of another, until her selfishness plunged them into a crisis of disgrace!
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- Drama
Overview
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, and then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingstone, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
Keywords
- addiction
- money
- infidelity
- lust
- gambler
- pre-code
- impulsive
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 28, 1931
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Gwen Zetter,Bess Flowers,Ronald R. Rondell,Porter Hall,Lulu Yoo,Robert Strange,Irving Pichel,Willard Dashiell,Tallulah Bankhead,Barbara Brownand 22 more
- Director
- George Abbott
- Writer
- Hector Turnbull,Harry Hervey
- Cinematography
- George J. Folsey
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0021735