Tallulah Bankhead – Irving Pichel – The Cheat – Branding Scene
Scene from The Cheat (1931) with Tallulah Bankhead and Irving Pichel. Director George Abbott Excerpt from the Production Code: Repellent Subjects The following subjects must be treated within the careful limits of good taste. 1. Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishments for crime. 2. Third-degree methods. 3. Brutality and possible gruesomeness. 4. Branding of people or animals. 5. Apparent cruelty to children or animals. 6. The sale of women, or a woman selling her virtue. 7. Surgical operations.
Wow, Tallulah looks so great! If she only liked cinema a lot more than the theater, she would have been among the ranks of a Stanwyck or even Norma Shearer
Actually, as we (later) learned, Tallu’s forte was comedy. In 30s, she turned down
screwball play, “Twentieth Century.”
The great TALLU!
I know what kind of man he is: FREEEEK.
Wow a young Tallulah — haven’t seen her in much when she was younger – think she got funnier as she got older.
Is it me, or does her older and younger selves look like two completely different people?
Anyways thanks for posting
@SASORI707 Tallulah was very good at dealing with pain.. the vast amounts of cocaine helped. lol
It’s called adrenaline…
Being branded on the shoulder must be excrutiatingly painful, for hours afterward. Tallulah seems to recover in seconds–I wonder if the director didn’t want to show her suffering, or perhaps Tallulah herself hadn’t yet reached her pinnacle….
shame that Tallulah didn’t became as big as Bette, Joan, or Garbo.
Irving PIchel is great in this movie. Too bad he didn’t more acting in film. He was also a very good director, heck, he discovered Natalie Wood!
This film was first made as a silent version in 1915 with Sessue Hayakawa in the male lead and Fannie Ward in the female lead.
I saw the silent version and I enjoyed it a great deal and I hope to see the 1931 version whenever I can, because I’m intrested to see the similarities and diffrences.
OMG! GREAT SCENE! i HAVE THIS MOVIE! Tallus sexy in it
Wow pretty extraordinary. Thanks for the upload, been wanting to see this film for a long time!