The Cheerful Fraud

December. 27,1926 NR

Rating：

4.6

Genre：

Adventure Comedy Romance

Keywords：

Silent Film Damsel In Distress Duplicity

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.

Reginald Denny as Sir Michael Fairlie

Gertrude Olmstead as Ann Kent

Otis Harlan as Mr. Bytheway

Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Bytheway

Charles K. Gerrard as Steve

Gertrude Astor as Rose

Luis Alberni as Valet

Wilson Benge as Butler

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Reviews

Raetsonwe

1926/12/27

Redundant and unnecessary.

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Micransix

1926/12/28

Crappy film

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Numerootno

1926/12/29

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

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Dana

1926/12/30

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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boblipton

1926/12/31

A year after they had a hit with the social comedy SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT, director Seiter and actor Reginald Denny teamed up again in this sharply-turned farce. reminiscent of the sort that Clarence Badger was doing with Raymond Griffith over at Paramount.There are the usual complications that lead to the situations in this farce: an adventuress -- Gertrude Astor -- with incriminating letters, a young couple in love -- that's Denny and Gertrude Olmstead -- and a crook pretending to be Reginald Denny's character. The timing is brisk, the situations comical, the pratfalls well taken and if dialogue instead of titles might sharpen it a tad, the silent version we have is quite funny without them.

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