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Deceit (1923 film)

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Deceit
Directed byOscar Micheaux
StarringEvelyn Preer
William Fountaine
Norman Johnstone
A. B. DeComathiere
Cleo Desmond
Distributed byMicheaux Film Corporation
Release date
  • 1923 (1923)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux.[1] Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light.[2] Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923.[3] It is not known whether the film currently survives,[4] which suggests that it is a lost film.

The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.

Cast

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  • Evelyn Preer – Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently
  • William Fountaine – unknown role
  • Norman Johnstone – Alfred DuBois / Gregory Wainwright
  • A. B. DeComathiere – Reverend Bently
  • Cleo Desmond – Charlotte Chesbro
  • Louis De Bulger – Mr. Chesbro
  • Mabel Young – Mrs. Levine
  • Cornelius Watkins – Gregory Wainwright, as a child
  • Mrs. Irvin C. Miller – Mrs. Wainwright
  • Ira O. McGowan – Mr. Wainwright

References

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  1. ^ Donald Bogle (2001). Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 115. ISBN 0-8264-1267-X.
  2. ^ Barbara Tepa Lupack (2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Toni Morrison. University of Rochester Press. pp. 117–118. ISBN 1-58046-103-4.
  3. ^ Richard Koszarski (2008). Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8135-4293-5.
  4. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Deceit at silentera.com
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