The Dream Cheater

Directed by Ernest C. Warde

With J. Warren Kerrigan, Wedgwood Nowell, Alice Wilson, Joseph J. Dowling and Tom Guise

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.