Deceit (1923 film)

Deceit (1923 film)
Deceit
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Starring Evelyn Preer
William Fountaine
Norman Johnstone
A.B. DeComathiere
Cleo Desmond
Louis De Bulger
Mabel Young
Cornelius Watkins
Irvin C. Miller
Ira O. McGowan
Lewis Schooler
Jerry Brown
James Carey
Viola Miles
Mary Jane Watkins
J. Coldwell
F. Sandfier
Jesse Billings
Allen Dixon
Leonard Galezio
Sadie Grey
William Petterson
Melton Henry
Distributed by Micheaux Film Corporation
Release date(s) 1923 (1923)
Country United States
Language English

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 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 not released until 1923, it was shot in 1921.[3]

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 082641267X. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Sz7K1c9QSoMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
  2. ^ Barbara Tepa Lupack (2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Toni Morrison. University of Rochester Press. pp. 117–118. ISBN 1580461034. http://books.google.ca/books?id=hjO7_Ju7lWUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
  3. ^ Richard Koszarski (2008). Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press. p. 97. ISBN 0813542936. http://books.google.ca/books?id=1NzOhgPs80MC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

External links

Deceit at the Internet Movie Database


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