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13/12/1915 Drama 0h 59m
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Overview

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

  1. Cecil B. DeMille

    Director

  2. Jeanie Macpherson

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Fannie Ward

    Edith Hardy

  2. Sessue Hayakawa

    Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]

  3. Jack Dean

    Richard Hardy

  4. James Neill

    Jones

  5. Yutaka Abe

    Tori's valet

  6. Dana Ong

    District attorney

  7. Hazel Childers

    Mrs. Reynolds

  8. Arthur H. Williams

    Courtroom judge

  9. Dick La Reno

    Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-06
Vaudevillian Fannie Ward made her cinematic debut here as "Edith", a rather shallow woman married to Jack Dean ("Richard"), a stockbroker. She lives for life's fripperies, and when he starts bemoaning the amounts of money she is frittering away on luxuries, she decides to procure some cash of her own by embezzling $10,000 from a charity she runs. Desperate to return the money, she turns to the distinctly shady Burmese ivory trader "Hishiru Tori" (Sessue Hayakawa) who offers her a deal - but at an horrible price... It has a very theatrical style to it, this production, but that's not a bad thin...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$17,311.00

Revenue
$137,365.00

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