The Dictator
2.5
“Fights and thrills and gay romance in a Spanish banana republic- with a wild young American and a pretty senorita the center of it all.”
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
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Wallace Reid
Brooke Travers
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Theodore Kosloff
Carlos Rivas
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The Tree of Knowledge
Lila Lee
Juanita
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The Unholy Three
Male and Female
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General Campos
Also in
West of Zanzibar
Shanghaied Lovers
Sidney Bracey
Henry Bolton
Known for
The Cameraman
Show People
Fred J. Butler
Sam Travers
Also in
The Battling Fool
According to Hoyle
Walter Long
Mike "Bigg" Dooley
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
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Alan Hale
Sabos
Known for
It Happened One Night
The Adventures of Robin Hood
James Cruze Director · Walter Woods Writer Richard Harding Davis Writer
United States release June 25, 1922 · Produced in United States · Production Paramount Pictures
Production
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · June 25, 1922
Theatrical
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