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The Dictator

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.
Jun 25, 1922 · 1h 0m
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Adventure
Drama
Romance

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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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CAST

Wallace Reid
Brooke Travers
Theodore Kosloff
Carlos Rivas
Lila Lee
Juanita
Kalla Pasha
General Campos
Sidney Bracey
Henry Bolton
Fred J. Butler
Sam Travers
Walter Long
Mike "Bigg" Dooley
Alan Hale
Sabos
Directed by James Cruze

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Paramount Pictures
Country
US

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