The Lovable Cheat (1949)

Directed by

Richard Oswald

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man uses charm and tricks to avoid paying his debts in 1840s France. He schemes to get money from a wealthy suitor for his daughter.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulbreezysillynostalgiccomedic

What happens

The Lovable Cheat is a 1949 American historical 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 Faiseur  by Honoré de Balzac. It was the final film of the veteran 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. The films sets were designed by the art director Boris Leven. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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