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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.

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

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