Cheating Cheaters (1919)
Mystery | January 1919
According to the 7 September 1918 Motion Picture News, Clara Kimball Young was going to make Cheating Cheaters the first film in Select Pictures' Second Star Series, but she decided instead to replace it with The Road Through the Dark (see entry), and save it for later. Filming was done at the Sunset Studio at 4516 Sunset Boulevard in east Hollywood, CA, which Young had leased for several upcoming Select productions. Sunset Studio was formerly D. W. Griffith's Artcraft Studio. She began Cheating Cheaters almost immediately after shooting the final scenes for The Road Through the Dark, according to the 16 November 1918 Motion Picture News.
Max Marcin's play was remade twice by Universal, first in 1927, and then again in 1934. The 1927 Cheating Cheaters was directed by Edward Laemmle and starred Betty Compson. The 1934 film was directed by Richard Thorpe and starred Fay Wong and Cesar Romero (see entries). ...
According to the 7 September 1918 Motion Picture News, Clara Kimball Young was going to make Cheating Cheaters the first film in Select Pictures' Second Star Series, but she decided instead to replace it with The Road Through the Dark (see entry), and save it for later. Filming was done at the Sunset Studio at 4516 Sunset Boulevard in east Hollywood, CA, which Young had leased for several upcoming Select productions. Sunset Studio was formerly D. W. Griffith's Artcraft Studio. She began Cheating Cheaters almost immediately after shooting the final scenes for The Road Through the Dark, according to the 16 November 1918 Motion Picture News.
Max Marcin's play was remade twice by Universal, first in 1927, and then again in 1934. The 1927 Cheating Cheaters was directed by Edward Laemmle and starred Betty Compson. The 1934 film was directed by Richard Thorpe and starred Fay Wong and Cesar Romero (see entries).
A gang of crooks using the name Brockton establishes itself in a fashionable New York neighborhood next door to the Palmers, and plots to steal their neighbors' valuable jewel collection. The two families become friendly when daughter Ruth Brockton and son Tom Palmer fall in love. Before the Brocktons can rob the Palmers they learn that their neighbors are also crooks who have set up the same scheme to rob the Brocktons. The two gangs agree to join forces but are threatened by the intervention of renowned detective Ferris, who it turns out has actually disguised herself as Ruth Brockton to entrap the two gangs. She pardons both sets of crooks and reforms Tom with whom she actually has fallen in ...
A gang of crooks using the name Brockton establishes itself in a fashionable New York neighborhood next door to the Palmers, and plots to steal their neighbors' valuable jewel collection. The two families become friendly when daughter Ruth Brockton and son Tom Palmer fall in love. Before the Brocktons can rob the Palmers they learn that their neighbors are also crooks who have set up the same scheme to rob the Brocktons. The two gangs agree to join forces but are threatened by the intervention of renowned detective Ferris, who it turns out has actually disguised herself as Ruth Brockton to entrap the two gangs. She pardons both sets of crooks and reforms Tom with whom she actually has fallen in love.
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