The Cheat
The Cheat is a 1915 film about a woman who steals charity money in order to invest it in stocks. When she loses the money, she turns to a wealthy Japanese man for help, and he takes possession of her body as collateral. It stars Fannie Ward, Jack Dean and Sessue Hayakawa.It was written by Jeanie Macpherson and Hector Turnbull, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
There is also a cartoon chartacter from the Homestar Runner series called the Cheat. He acts as a sidekick to Strong Bad and Strong Mad, and created the music video for the song Everybody to the Limit, which most prominently features the use of the word fhqwhgads.
