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Film · Paramount · 1915

The Cheat

The Cheat

25Leave it.

DeMille's hit brands a woman and draws the man as a racial threat, so it stays off.

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The review

Adults only. I would not leave this on with children in the house. A society woman borrows from an ivory merchant. When she will not pay as he wants, he brands her. Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward. DeMille had a hit on his own books, and the brand is why people still name it. The villain is drawn as a racial threat. I would say that before anyone treats the fame as a reason to press play.

I can follow a debt. I will not dress what he does to her as nerve, or as a thrill, or as something she wanted. What you walk out with is a scare about a neighbor and a woman used as the proof. A figure on DeMille's books is not kindness. If adults watch, they can keep the lights up and name the drawing. That is the condition.

Journal

Keep The Cheat in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 25. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 4Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 1Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 2Truth
  8. 1Stewardship

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Grand Hotel

36 instead of 25

Grand Hotel is still a drama film, and it scores 36 instead of 25. What you gain is industry: A ballerina, a clerk, a businessman, and a stenographer cross as jobs.

The eight

  1. 4
    Industry

    An ivory merchant's trade is the lever; her social borrowing is not a job.

  2. 3
    Household

    A society woman's private debt becomes the scandal, not a life anyone keeps.

  3. 3
    Piety

    She refuses his terms; the picture spends that refusal on a racial scare.

  4. 4
    Courage

    Refusing the payment he wants costs her, and the film banks on that cost.

  5. 1
    Republic

    Hayakawa's merchant is drawn as a racial threat, not a neighbor under law.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    The borrowing starts it, and the brand is why the hit is still named.

  7. 2
    Truth

    A real debt sits inside a lie that a man's race is the danger.

  8. 1
    Stewardship

    What remains is a remembered brand and a picture that is not for a family.

Live historically

If Hayakawa is on this week, say first that the merchant is drawn as a racial threat, not merely a collector.

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Film · Fox · 1916

A Daughter of the Gods

A Daughter of the Gods

25Leave it.

Kellerman's island story is for a teen only after you say why Fox paid.

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Fox spent real money on a fantasy, and the swim was the sell. Annette Kellerman plays a swimmer. There's a tyrant and an island. A teen can watch the story, and I'd split that sentence before anyone sits. The costume, and the lack of it, was the argument in the papers, so it is adult enough on that point. I will not describe a body. The body was why Fox paid. Say the sentence and stop.

I don't mind a tale with a tyrant in it. I mind pretending the check was for the island. Swimming is real work, and the studio used the swimmer as the advertisement. If a teen follows the story, name the argument in the papers first and leave the rest unsaid. Adults who already know why it cost so much don't need the rest told.

Journal

Keep A Daughter of the Gods in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 25. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 4Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 2Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 3Truth
  8. 2Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

38 instead of 25

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is still a fantasy film, and it scores 38 instead of 25. What you gain is temperance: One reel for a nickelodeon does not train you to wait for a sequel.

The eight

  1. 4
    Industry

    Kellerman's swimming is real work; the body, not the island, is why Fox paid.

  2. 2
    Household

    A tyrant and an island, and no marriage, parent, or child is the life here.

  3. 2
    Piety

    A tyrant fantasy does not show a conscience stopping the one who holds power.

  4. 3
    Courage

    She swims the fantasy; the risk the papers bought was the costume, not a rescue.

  5. 2
    Republic

    A tyrant rules the island, and the picture is not a civic argument.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    The swim was the sell, and the papers were trained to argue the costume.

  7. 3
    Truth

    The fantasy is not a report; the honest part is why Fox wrote the check.

  8. 2
    Stewardship

    An expensive picture leaves a costume argument, not the island the money claimed.

Live historically

If a teen sees the tyrant story, say first that the papers argued the costume, and that is why Fox paid.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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