The Charlatan
6.6
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.
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Cast
23 people
Holmes Herbert
Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
Known for
The Invisible Man
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Margaret Livingston
Florence Talbot
Known for
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
J.G. Hawks
George Melford
Also in
The Ten Commandments
The Hero Track Walker
Rockliffe Fellowes
Richard Talbot
Known for
Monkey Business
Robert N. Lee
Philo McCullough
Walter Paynter
Also in
Tarzan the Fearless
The Power of the Press
Ernest Pascal
Anita Garvin
Mrs. Paynter
Known for
Blotto
Swiss Miss
Leonard Praskins
Crauford Kent
Frank Deering
Also in
Mutiny on the Bounty
Other Men's Shoes
Tom Reed
George Melford Director
United States release April 13, 1929 · Produced in United States
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Release dates
United States · April 13, 1929
Theatrical
Finland
February 24, 1930
Hungary
November 14, 1929
Slovenia
September 30, 1930
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