A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Wallace Reid, Theodore Kosloff, Lila Lee
Written by:
Richard Harding Davis
Walter Woods
Directed by:
James Cruze
Release Date:
June 25, 1922
Original Title:
The Dictator
Genres:
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Paramount Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 60
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!
Pursued by a cab driver for an unpaid fare, a millionaire's son, Brooke Travers ( Wallace Reid ), hides on a steamer, and both men find themselves en route to South America, where they are caught up in a revolution. Brooke falls in love with Juanita ( Lila Lee ), then learns that she is the daughter of the leader of the revolution and his father's enemy. Although his father's business interests control the country, Brooke helps the revolutionary forces to victory and earns his father's respect.
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