Deceit (1923 film)

1923 film by Oscar Micheaux

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

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* 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

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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

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

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Films directed by Oscar Micheaux

* The Homesteader (1919)
* Within Our Gates (1920)
* The Brute (1920)
* The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
* The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
* The Dungeon (1922)
* The Hypocrite (1922)
* Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)
* The Virgin of the Seminole (1922)
* Deceit (1923)
* Birthright (1924)
* A Son of Satan (1924)
* Body and Soul (1925)
* Marcus Garland (1925)
* The Conjure Woman (1926)
* The Devil's Disciple (1926)
* The Spider's Web (1926)
* The Millionaire (1927)
* The Broken Violin (1928)
* The House Behind the Cedars (1927)
* Thirty Years Later (1928)
* When Men Betray (1929)
* The Wages of Sin (1929)
* Easy Street (1930)
* A Daughter of the Congo (1930)
* Darktown Revue (1931)
* The Exile (1931)
* Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
* Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
* Black Magic (1932)
* The Girl from Chicago (1932)
* Phantom of Kenwood (1933)
* Harlem After Midnight (1934)
* Murder in Harlem (1935)
* Temptation (1936)
* Underworld (1937)
* God's Step Children (1938)
* Swing! (1938)
* Lying Lips (1939)
* Birthright (1939)
* The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
* The Betrayal (1948)

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