Deceit (1923)
March 1, 1923Release Date
Plot.
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. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film. The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.
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Cast & Crew.
Evelyn Preer
Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently
William Fountaine
Actor
Norman Johnstone
Alfred DuBois / Gregory Wainwright
A.B. DeComathiere
Reverend Bently
Oscar Micheaux
Director
Cleo Desmond
Charlotte Chesbro
Louis De Bulger
Mr. Chesbro
Mabel Young
Mrs. Levine
Cornelius Watkins
Gregory Wainwright, as a child
Kathryn Boyd
Mrs. Wainwright
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Wiki.
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. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.
The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.