The Faker (1929)
Melodrama | 2 January 1929
Director:
Phil RosenWriters:
Howard J. Green, Howard J. GreenProducer:
Harry CohnCinematographer:
Ted TetzlaffEditor:
William HamiltonProduction Designer:
Harrison WileyProduction Company:
Columbia Pictures Corp.The 8 Dec 1928 Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World announced that the production starting date for The Faker was 19 Nov ... More Less
The 8 Dec 1928 Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World announced that the production starting date for The Faker was 19 Nov 1928. More Less
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's ... + −
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes. + −
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