Editing The Cheat (1915 film) (section)

==Remakes and adaptations==
The film was [[The Cheat (1923 film)|remade in 1923]], with [[George Fitzmaurice]] as director and [[Pola Negri]] and [[Jack Holt (actor)|Jack Holt]] starring. In 1931, Paramount [[The Cheat (1931 film)|again remade ''The Cheat'']], with Broadway mogul [[George Abbott]] as director and starring [[Tallulah Bankhead]].<ref name=eagan/>

''The Cheat'' was also remade in France as ''[[Forfaiture]]'' (1937) directed by [[Marcel L'Herbier]]. This version, however, makes significant changes to the original story, even though Hayakawa was cast once again as the sexually predatory Asian man.<ref name=birchard/>

An operatic adaptation of the story, ''La Forfaiture'', with music by [[Camille Erlanger]] and a libretto by [[André de Lorde]] and [[Paul Milliet]], premiered at the [[Opéra-Comique]] in 1921. The first opera to be based on a film scenario, it was not a success, playing only three times.<ref name="Miyao 2007 p. 25">{{cite book | last=Miyao | first=D. | title=Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom | publisher=Duke University Press | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-8223-3969-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ2wHVKG1HcC&pg=PA25 | access-date=May 24, 2022 | page=25}}</ref>