Date: 8 June 2011
Location: The Picture House
Time: 19:30

For the 11th Bristol Silents Club Screening we turn our attentions to the power house that is Cecil B. DeMille, and one of his less well known films, The Cheat (1915).

The silent melodrama The Cheat was a key film in the early career of Cecil B. DeMille, one that helped establish his reputation as a top-echelon director. According to DeMille biographer Anne Edwards, the film "set standards of acting, decor, frame composition and lighting which were not surpassed for years."

Although D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, released the same year, has received more attention, The Cheat also had a profound influence on filmmaking, especially in its innovative camera techniques and "sexually charged content."

The film will be introduced by Bristol Silents Honorary Member and BAFTA Award Winning Editor Don Fairservice.

As usual, screening notes will be provided and information on up and coming events and international silent film festivals will be avaliable.

"A masterpiece! A serious, bizarre and disturbing fable [that] suggests the favorite DeMille mixture of sex, sadism and sacrifice, washed down with lurid melodrama...as powerful as ever today." - Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By

"One of the great accomplishments of the American cinema." - Ren� Clair

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