Cheating Cheaters (1927 film)

Cheating Cheaters
Still with Littlefield and Compson
Directed byEdward Laemmle
Written byCharles Logue
James T. O'Donohoe
Walter Anthony
Based on
Cheating Cheaters
by Max Marcin
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringBetty Compson
CinematographyJackson Rose
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • December 5, 1927 (1927-12-05)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Cheating Cheaters is a 1927 American silent comedy crime film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Edward Laemmle and starred Betty Compson.[1] This film was based on a 1916 Broadway play of the same name by Max Marcin.[2]

A 1919 film of the same name was also based on Marcin's play. It was produced by and starred Clara Kimball Young. It was adapted for the screen again in 1934 starring Cesar Romero.[3]

Cast

Preservation

Cheating Cheaters is currently presumed lost.[4] In February 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[5]

As of 2025 there is only on print of Cheating Cheaters located in the arcade in Milestones - living history museum in Basingstoke, England and it is only a short clip of the film, it was uploaded onto YouTube by DB sonic 12 in late 2023, it is a Partially found film.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Cheating Cheaters at silentera.com
  2. ↑ Cheating Cheaters as produced on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, August 9 1916 to April 1917, 2i86 performances; IBDb.com
  3. ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Cheating Cheaters". afi.com. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  4. ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Cheating Cheaters". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  5. ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  6. ↑ "cheating cheaters (a lost 1927 film starring betty compson)(please read description)". YouTube. December 23, 2023.
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