The Cheat

I mean, this was SO GOOD!!!💝 I don’t know why it’s not rated higher, but I never apologize for enjoying a film. Everything & everyone looks gorgeous, & particularly admirable were the party scenes. As usual I felt robbed not seeing this on the big screen. And the story!…

Penny_S

The first weeb ever seen on film. Literally why didn't she run away the moment he opened a cabinet of dolls and said the were the women of his past?? That was weird tf 😭😭 It's an okay film but it would be absolutely nothing without Tallulah Bankhead.

Anna🍓

Tallulah Bankhead stars as… Tallulah Bankhead, and Harvey Stephens plays what has got to be the first weeb on screen in The Cheat, a movie so ridiculous that it somehow manages to be entertaining through the entirety of its short runtime. Things get really ludicrous in the…

Jerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyApJnz7V3s&ab_channel=ScallywagsTV2

Will Sloan

The moral of the story is: don't get mixed up with men who have doll collections.

directorscut

“I wanna drive fast.” Few things more powerful in early 20th century American cinema than the IOU. Hardy Livingstone (Irving Pichel), the original weeb, just back from somewhere in “the Orient,” brags about his exotic knowledge, shows off his Yama God of Destruction…

Gentry Austin

I think that a Viewer’s impression of 1931’s THE CHEAT depends on the amount of disbelief that can be suspended.  If the verdict is, “This is ridiculous!  It could never happen!” then the impression will be this is trite hokum.  If the verdict is, “This is ridiculous!  What…

Jim Dooley

The Cheat is a Tallulah Bankhead vehicle where she plays the titular “cheat”…sort of. She plays Elsa, a compulsive gambler who has lost $10,000 of her and her husband’s (Harvey Stephens) money. A man who has been after her affections (Irving Pichel) offers her $10,000 as a…

scottwchristy

"You don't know what kind of man I am. But I'll show you." I picked this on a whim, based on the absolute S-tier poster. Judging a movie by its one-sheet pays off again, because The Cheat is a great pre-code movie that doesn't shy away from human vices and their…

Lewis