Deceit (1923 film)

Deceit
Directed by	Oscar Micheaux
Starring	Evelyn Preer William Fountaine Norman Johnstone A. B. DeComathiere Cleo Desmond
Distributed by	Micheaux Film Corporation
Release date	1923 (1923)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux.^[1] Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light.^[2] Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923.^[3] It is not known whether the film currently survives,^[4] which suggests that it is a lost film.

The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.

Cast

• Evelyn Preer – Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently
• William Fountaine – unknown role
• Norman Johnstone – Alfred DuBois / Gregory Wainwright
• A. B. DeComathiere – Reverend Bently
• Cleo Desmond – Charlotte Chesbro
• Louis De Bulger – Mr. Chesbro
• Mabel Young – Mrs. Levine
• Cornelius Watkins – Gregory Wainwright, as a child
• Mrs. Irvin C. Miller – Mrs. Wainwright
• Ira O. McGowan – Mr. Wainwright

References

1. Donald Bogle (2001). Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 115. ISBN 0-8264-1267-X.
2. Barbara Tepa Lupack (2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Toni Morrison. University of Rochester Press. pp. 117–118. ISBN 1-58046-103-4.
3. Richard Koszarski (2008). Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8135-4293-5.
4. Progressive Silent Film List: Deceit at silentera.com

External links

• Deceit at IMDb
• Deceit at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films