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The Lovable Cheat is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Oswald released in USA on 11 may 1949 with Charles Ruggles
The Lovable Cheat (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe Lovable Cheat is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Charles Ruggles, Peggy Ann Garner and Richard Ney. It is based on the 1848 play Mercadet Le Falseur by Honoré de Balzac. It was the final film of the Austrian director Oswald, who had fled into exile following the Nazi rise to power. Buster Keaton played a small supporting role in the film, as his career had seriously declined by this stage.
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in France back in 1860, a gentleman by the name of Claude Mercadet, lived in grandeur with his wife Pauline and his daughter Julie in a very well decorated mansion in the Bois de Bologne. Claude was one of the wealthiest men around Paris. unfortunately he was a fraud, and he had been running up bills for quite some time, paying one creditor with the money he got from another, creating a downwards spiral of unfortune. His house was in fact not built with bricks but with straws, and it was about to collapse. As it does, a bailiff calls on him to confiscate his property as security for his long overdue loan and tax payments. The bailiff starts to reclaim all of Claude's possessions, and Claude also gets a note from each of his creditors, Pierquin, Goulard and Violette, and they threaten to throw him in jail unless the debts are paid in full.Actors
Charles Ruggles
(Claude Mercadet)
Peggy Ann Garner
(Julie Mercadet)
Richard Ney
(Jacques Minard)
Alan Mowbray
(Justin)
Iris Adrian
(Madame Mercadet)
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