The Cheaters (The Castaways) (1945)
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A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy. It all happens because the ditzy wife makes a terrible mistake with their money and loses a fortune. Her husband, a banker is at his wit's end as he scrambles about… More A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy. It all happens because the ditzy wife makes a terrible mistake with their money and loses a fortune. Her husband, a banker is at his wit's end as he scrambles about looking for much-needed cash. He tries his wife's wealthy, ailing uncle, but he has bequeathed his fortune to the actress he loved as a boy, (a woman he has never met). The aging star, who long ago disappeared from the screen, has no idea she is an heiress. Meanwhile, just before Christmas the daughter of the family brings home a boozy hambone of a fallen theater star who is short on cash. It is he who finds the missing actress and brings her into the house after convincing her that she and the family are related. Things go swimmingly and wealth is restored until the actor gets drunk and tells her the truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph Kane
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 15, 1945 Wide
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Cast
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Joseph Schildkraut
as Mr. M.
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Billie Burke
as Mrs. Pidgeon
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Eugene Pallette
as Mr. Pidgeon
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Ona Munson
as Florie
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Raymond Walburn
as Willie
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Ann Gillis
as Angela
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Ruth Terry
as Therese
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Robert Livingston
as Stephen Bates
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David Holt
as Reggie
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Robert Greig
as MacFarland
- Virginia Carroll
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Byron Foulger
as Process Server
- Frances Gladwin
- St. Luke's Choristers
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Norma Varden
as Mattie Mr. Pidgeon's secretary
- Harriette Haddon
