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Deceit is a american film of genre Drama directed by Oscar Micheaux released in USA on 1 march 1923 with Evelyn Preer
Deceit (1923)
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Add to a movie listDeceit (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. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.
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Evelyn Preer
(Doris Rutledge/Evelyn Bently)
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