Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux.^[1] Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light.^[2] Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923.^[3] It is not known whether the film currently survives,^[4] which suggests that it is a lost film.

The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.

Cast

• Evelyn Preer – Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently
• William Fountaine – unknown role
• Norman Johnstone – Alfred DuBois / Gregory Wainwright
• A. B. DeComathiere – Reverend Bently
• Cleo Desmond – Charlotte Chesbro
• Louis De Bulger – Mr. Chesbro
• Mabel Young – Mrs. Levine
• Cornelius Watkins – Gregory Wainwright, as a child
• Mrs. Irvin C. Miller – Mrs. Wainwright
• Ira O. McGowan – Mr. Wainwright