DeMille Screenwriters: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson Art director: Wilfred Buckland Cinematographer: Alvin Wyckoff. Watch with Prime Start your 30-day free trial. DeMilleProducer, Editing, Director Fannie WardCast Sessue HayakawaCast Jack DeanCast James NeillCast Hector TurnbullScreenplay Jeanie Macpherson. DeMille Starring Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean Genres Comedy, Drama, Romance Subtitles English CC Audio languages English. He made his breakthrough in The Cheat (1915), and thereafter became famous for his roles as a forbidden lover. Following Japanese protests, Hayakawa’s character was turned into a ‘Burmese ivory king’ for the film’s re-release in 1918. Featured Cast: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa. The Cheat (5) 6.5 59min 1915 13+ A venal, spoiled stockbrokers. In The Cheat, Hayakawa’s sinister character begins to aggressively seduce his neighbor, and his villainous pursuit climaxes in an infamous scene: He brands the girl with a hot iron to claim her as his. ![]() The bright scenes, shot in natural light in a glass studio, cast frank illumination on the opulence of the American upper class, while the shadowy, ‘expressive’ effects placed the darker scenes firmly in the ‘Oriental’s’ secretive, sadistic, appetite-driven world. ![]() DeMille (1915) Temptation, regia di Cecil B. For this cross between a marital and a courtroom drama, Wyckoff used the famed ‘Lasky lighting’ to create a sophisticated dramatic structure in black-and-white that was later often copied. Sessue Hayakawa, ( ) nato Kintarô Hayakawa (Chiba, 10 giugno 1886 Tokyo, 23 novembre 1973), è stato un attore, produttore cinematografico e regista giapponese. Edith accepts the bargain … The film, starring Hollywood’s Japanese star Sessue Hayakawa was shot by cinematographer Alvin Wyckoff, for whom Japanese cameraman Henry Kotani (AKA Kuraichi or Soichi Kotani, 1887 – 1972) worked as an assistant. A Japanese art dealer offers to give the despairing socialite the money, but only if she agrees to be his lover. One of her husband’s colleagues proffers a lucrative investment, so Edith filches 10,000 dollars from the Red Cross, where she is treasurer – and loses it in the market. Edith Hardy is a stockbroker’s wife in New York who spends money like it was going out of style.
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