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kobvindex_ZLB13483645
Format:
(ca. 59 Min.) : s/w
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Tonformat: Stummfilm
Content:
Mixed messages also abound in The Cheat, in which a society woman (Fannie Ward) allows a wealthy Burmese trader (Sessue Hayakawa) to settle a debt for her, not realizing that in exchange he intends to brand her flesh as his own. Highly influential for its dramatic low-key lighting and its frank depiction of extra-marital intrigue, The Cheat tapped into a vein of post-Victorian female masochism, eroticism and Orientalism of the day, exploring the taboo desire to be forcefully seduced and possessed by a man of another race (as in Rudolph Valentino's Sheik films several years later). (from the container)
In:
Manslaughter : [DVD Video], New York, NY, 2002, (2002)
Author information:
De Mille, Cecil B.
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