A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Fair Cheat
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5652 feet
Directed by Burton King

Cast: Edmund Breese [Morgan Van Dam], Wilfred Lytell [John Hamilton], Dorothy Mackaill [Camilla], Marie White [Gloria Starke], William Robyns [Rutledge Stone], Harold Foshay [Crittenden Scott Buckley], Bradley Barker [Sloman Zeigler], Jack Newton [Sam Hiller], Tom Blake [‘Bunk’ Willis]

R-C Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated. / Scenario by William B. Laub, from a screen story by William B. Laub. Art direction by Joseph Clement. Cinematography by Alfred Ortlieb. Presented by Burton King. / © 24 September 1923 by R-C Pictures Corporation [LP19453]. Released 16 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 November 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.