The Charlatan
Released: April 13, 1929Runtime: 63 min
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they're having at her house. What the woman doesn't realize is that the "fortune-teller" is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the "charlatan" is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.
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Holmes Herbert
as Count Merlin - aka Peter Dwight
Margaret Livingston
as Florence Talbot
Rockliffe Fellowes
as Richard Talbot
Philo Mccullough
as Dr. Walter Paynter
Anita Garvin
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Crauford Kent
as District Attorney Frank Deering
Rose Tapley
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Fred Mackaye
as Jerry Starke
Dorothy Gould
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Wilson Benge
as The Talbots' Butler
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