The Cheat

The Cheat is a 1915 film about a woman who steals charity money in order to invest it in stocks. When she loses the money, she turns to a wealthy Japanese man for help, and he takes possession of her body as collateral. It stars Fannie Ward[?], Jack Dean[?] and Sessue Hayakawa[?].

It was written by Jeanie Macpherson[?] and Hector Turnbull[?], and directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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There is also a cartoon chartacter from the Homestar Runner series called the Cheat. He acts as a sidekick to Strong Bad and Strong Mad, and created the music video for the song Everybody to the Limit[?], which most prominently features the use of the word fhqwhgads.