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Voidsville Follies

Works by Sessue Hayakawa (1)

The Cheat [1915]

Cecil B. DeMille (director/producer)
Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer)
Hector Turnbull (author/writer)
Jeanie Macpherson (writer)
Fannie Ward (lead)
Sessue Hayakawa (lead)
Jack Dean (lead)
James Neill (lead)
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1915
Minutes: 59

Stone-cold yellow man burns hot for white flesh of loose lady. Interracial dating, theft, lies, flesh-peddling, brutal sadism, revenge, blood splatter, lynch mob, and the slickest eyebrow in showbiz - welcome to Pulp Paradise.

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: courtroom; crime; ethnic stereotype; female avenger; lynching; melodrama; prostitution; psycho; revenge; sexuality; social commentary; torture; white flesh lust; white supremacy

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