The Deceiver (film)
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Director Louis King Screenplay Jack Cunningham Duration Country United States | 4.6/10 IMDb Genre Mystery Cinematography Joseph Walker Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Jack Cunningham , Abem Finkel Release date November 21, 1931 (1931-11-21) Cast John Wayne (Richard Thorpe as a corpse), Ian Keith , Dorothy Sebastian , Lloyd Hughes , Al Ernest Garcia Similar movies Love Bound (1932) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Deceiver is a 1931 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Louis King. The film stars Lloyd Hughes, Ian Keith and Dorothy Sebastian. John Wayne makes a minor appearance as a corpse. The film premiered on November 21, 1931.
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Plot overview
Actor Reginald Thorpe is found dead in his dressing room, stabbed in the back. Suspects abound. Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of Othello. A rat with women, Thorpe has scattered broken female hearts all along the Great White Way, giving lots of people plenty of incentive to murder him. Sure enough, he is murdered, as is another fellow who holds a vital clue as to the identity of the killer. Second-guessing the detectives, hero Tony (Lloyd Hughes) tries to solve the mystery himself, if only to clear heroine Ina (Dorothy Sebastian) of suspicion. The guilty party is tricked into confessing by the cagey Tony.
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