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Cecil B. DeMille's enthralling potboiler about a New York socialite (Fannie Ward) who turns to a wealthy Asian (Sessue Hayakawa) to pay off a costly debt. Famous for a brutal branding scene. This silent melodrama was selected to the National Film Registry in 1993. Four decades later, Hayakawa would be nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the sadistic commandant in "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
1915
English
Drama
Silent
Cast & Crew
James Neill
(Actor)
.. Jones
Sessue Hayakawa
(Actor)
.. Arakau
Fannie Ward
(Actor)
.. Edith Hardy
Jack Dean
(Actor)
.. Dick Hardy
Jack Yutaka Abbe
(Actor)
.. The Valet
Dana Ong
(Actor)
.. District Attorney
Hazel Childers
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Reynolds
Arthur H. Williams
(Actor)
.. Courtroom Judge
More Information
Did You Know..
James Neill
(Actor)
.. Jones
Born:
September 29, 1860
Died: March 15, 1931
Died: March 15, 1931
Trivia:
A dignified stage actor who had earned accolades for The Senator, a play apparently written especially for him, James Neill entered films in the early 1910s with the pioneering Jesse J. Lasky Company (later Paramount). A top supporting actor in the early silent era, Neill portrayed Louis XIII to Murdock MacQuarrie's Richelieu (1914), played General Warren in the first version of William de Mille's The Warrens of Virginia (1915), was Aaron in The Ten Commandments (1923), and played Bessie Love's father in The Idle Rich (1929). The husband of character actress Edythe Chapman (1863-1948), James Neill died of heart disease.
Sessue Hayakawa
(Actor)
.. Arakau
Fannie Ward
(Actor)
.. Edith Hardy
Born:
June 22, 1872
Died: January 27, 1952
Died: January 27, 1952
Trivia:
A major stage star in the first decade of the 20th century, Fannie Ward had made her Broadway debut in 1890 as Cupid in Pippino before gaining stardom on both sides of the Atlantic in such vehicles as Madam President, The Shop Girl, and The Marriage of William Ashe. Looking far younger than her birth date would suggest, Ward made a sensational screen debut as the wayward wife in Cecil B. DeMille's equally sensational The Cheat (1915), the first in a successful string of melodramas that included Each Pearl a Tear (1916), in which she is nearly seduced by her evil foster-father and A Gutter Magdalene (1916), as a country lass innocently involved with Big City gangsters. By the late 1910s, Ward was nearing 50, however, and although reviewers never failed to comment on how remarkably young she looked, she chose to retire. She was married to Jack Dean who co-starred in nearly all her films.
Jack Dean
(Actor)
.. Dick Hardy
Born:
January 01, 1874
Died: January 01, 1950
Died: January 01, 1950
Jack Yutaka Abbe
(Actor)
.. The Valet
Dana Ong
(Actor)
.. District Attorney
Born:
January 01, 1873
Died: January 01, 1948
Died: January 01, 1948
Hazel Childers
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Reynolds
Arthur H. Williams
(Actor)
.. Courtroom Judge
