Deceit (1923)

Deceit sometimes referred to as The Deceit is a 1923 American silent blackandwhite film It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux Like many of Micheauxs films Deceit casts clerics in a negative light Although the film was shot in 1921 it was not released until 1923 It is not known whether the film currently survives which suggests that it is a lost film The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film