Editing The Cheat (1915 film) (section)

== Critical reception ==
''Moving Picture World'' gave it a glowing review: <blockquote>Space bids me be brief. I cannot, however, omit words of unqualified praise for Fanny Ward, whose impersonation of the social butterfly with the singed wings was a masterly performance. The lighting effects must be mentioned, too. They are beyond all praise in their art, their daring and their originality. There are those deft and subtle touches that we find all the Lasky pictures possess--only here they crowd upon one another. What a delicate but powerful effect was the omission of the bars in the prison scene. The shadow of the bars, the sombre light, the bent head of the prisoner silhouetted against the bare wall--this is but one of the numerous happy touches. ''The Cheat'' is worth advertising to the limit. It is one feature in a hundred.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chalmers Publishing Company |url=http://archive.org/details/movpicwor26chal |title=Moving Picture World (Dec 1915) |date=1915 |publisher=New York, Chalmers Publishing Company |others=New York The Museum of Modern Art Library}}</ref></blockquote>