The Dream Cheater

Release Date: 1920-04-04

Overview: An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.

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Cast

J. Warren Kerrigan

as Brandon McShane

Wedgwood Nowell

as Angus Burton

Alice Wilson

as Mimi Gascoigne

Joseph J. Dowling

as Shib Mizah

Tom Guise

as Patrick Fitz-George