The Charlatan (1929)
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they're having at her house. What the woman doesn't realize is that the "fortune-teller" is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the "charlatan" is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.
- Date of release
- 1929-04-13
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Director
- George Melford
Casting
- Holmes Herbert — Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
- Margaret Livingston — Florence Talbot
- Rockliffe Fellowes — Richard Talbot
- Philo McCullough — Walter Paynter
- Anita Garvin — Mrs. Paynter
- Crauford Kent — Frank Deering
- Rose Tapley — Mrs. Deering
- Dorothy Gould — Ann Talbot
- Fred MacKaye — Jerry Starke
- John George — Count Merlin's Assistant (uncredited)
- Fritzi Fern — The Talbots' Maid (uncredited)
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