Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light.Progressive Silent Film List: Deceit at silentera.com
The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.
Cast Evelyn Preer – Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently William Fountaine – unknown role Norman Johnstone – Alfred DuBois / Gregory Wainwright A. B. DeComathiere – Reverend Bently Cleo Desmond – Charlotte Chesbro Louis De Bulger – Mr. Chesbro Mabel Young – Mrs. Levine Cornelius Watkins – Gregory Wainwright, as a child Mrs. Irvin C. Miller – Mrs. Wainwright Ira O. McGowan – Mr. Wainwright
Production Filming began on June 6, 1921 at Estee Studio, New York City. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923.
Censorship Before Deceit could be exhibited in Kansas, the state censorship board required the removal of several scenes and intertitles. Reel 1, three scenes of girl smoking. Reel 5, the fight scene and the closeup of pulling hair and biting fingers. Also removed were the reel 5 titles "You know dearie, when you want to mess something up, put a negro into it and especially a preacher." and "What profit it ye, if you gain riches and lose Jesus."
Preservation With no holdings located in archives, Deceit is considered a lost film.
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