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The Cheaters (silent) (1929)

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clip ’Dearest, I love you’

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The love of Paula Marsh (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’) for Lee Travers (Josef Bambach) is undermined by Paula’s feelings of remorse over her activities as a thief.

Curator’s notes

In this clip’s two sequences, Isabel McDonagh communicates her character’s tug-of-war between love and remorse, the latter triggered by awareness that her past as a thief could undermine her future with Lee. Director Paulette McDonagh and cameraman Jack Fletcher subtly accentuate this struggle through the use of faces in shadow and their placement of human figures in substantially dark settings. Josef Bambach, whose first film this was, had stage experience as a singer and would later appear, billed as John Maitland, in the short film The Haunted Barn (EA Dietrich-Derrick, Gregan McMahon, 1931).

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