The Dream Cheater
The Dream Cheater
The Dream Cheater at SFlix. 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.
- Genre: Horror
- Country: United States
- Director: Ernest C. Warde
- Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan, Wedgwood Nowell, Alice Wilson, Joseph J. Dowling, Tom Guise, Fritzi Brunette, Aggie Herring, Sam Sothern,