The Marriage Cheat is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and written by C. Gardner Sullivan.

The film stars Leatrice Joy, Adolphe Menjou, Percy Marmont, Laska Winter, Henry A. Barrows, and J. P. Lockney.

[1][2][3][4] As described in a film magazine review,[5] Octavia leads an unhappy life with her dissipated husband, Bob Canfield, who is a millionaire.

In the interval she has learned to love Mayne, but yields to her marital duty's call and prepares to rejoin Canfield.

Paul fights his way through the surging waves in a frail canoe and rescues the young mother and her baby.