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The Dictator
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Oscar Eagle [?] and/or Edwin S. Porter?

Cast: John Barrymore [Brooke Travers], Charlotte Ives [Lucy Sheridan], Ruby Hoffman [Juanita], Ivan Simpson [Simpson], Walter Craven [General Campos], Robert Broderick [Colonel Bowie], Esther Lyon [Mrs. Bowie], Harry West [Reverend Bostick], Mario Majerino [General Rivas], Thomas McGrath [Duffy]

Famous Players Film Company production in association with Charles Frohman Company; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play adaptation The Dictator by Richard Harding Davis of the novel The Dictator by Richard Harding Davis. Assistant director, Harry Weir. / Released 21 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some location photography was taken in Cuba. The film was rereleased in the USA by [?] Famous Players-Lasky Corporation or Paramount Pictures Corporation? on 13 April 1919. The play was subsequently filmed as The Dictator (1922).

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Americans (Abroad) - Central America - Cuba - Dictators

Listing updated: 12 February 2024.

References: Fell-History p. 47 : Website-AFI.

 
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