The films sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. It is a remake of the American silent film The Cheat by Cecil B. 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. Sessue Hayakawa (born Kintaro Hayakawa) was born in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1886. The Cheat (French: Forfaiture) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel LHerbier and starring Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa and Louis Jouvet. 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. Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in The Cheat (Lasky, 1915).
De Milles 1916 film The Cheat, his career was firmly established. The Cheat so offended members of the Japanese government that Tori’s nationality was changed to Burmese and his name became Haka Arakau. 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. With his starring role with Fannie Ward in Cecil B. A Japanese art dealer offers to give the despairing socialite the money, but only if she agrees to be his lover. 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. It was supporting actor Sessue Hayakawa, originally from Japan, who became an overnight sensationand not only in the U.S. 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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