The Dream Cheater

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.

Director: Ernest C. Warde

Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan, Wedgwood Nowell, Alice Wilson, Joseph J. Dowling, Tom Guise, Fritzi Brunette, Aggie Herring, Sam Sothern

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.