The Charlatan

The Charlatan

63 mins | Thriller | April 13, 1929

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.

The Charlatan

63 mins | Thriller | April 13, 1929

The Charlatan
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.
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title The Charlatan
Directors George Melford
Writers

Cast

Holmes Herbert

as Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight

Margaret Livingston

as Florence Talbot

Rockliffe Fellowes

as Richard Talbot

Philo McCullough

as Walter Paynter

Anita Garvin

as Mrs. Paynter

Crauford Kent

as Frank Deering

John George

as Count Merlin's Assistant (uncredited)