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The Dictator is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Edwin S. Porter released in USA on 21 june 1915 with John Barrymore

The Dictator (1915)

The Dictator
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Released in USA 21 june 1915
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Adventure,    Romance
Rating71% 3.580383.580383.580383.580383.58038

The Dictator is a 1915 silent film comedy directed by Oscar Eagle and reputedly Edwin S. Porter. It was based on a play The Dictator by Richard Harding Davis and produced by Adolph Zukor (Famous Players Film Company) and the Charles Frohman Company. John Barrymore stars in a role played on the stage by William Collier, Sr. whose company Barrymore had performed in this play. The film was rereleased on April 13, 1919 as part of the Paramount "Success Series" of their early screen successes. The story was refilmed in 1922 as The Dictator starring Wallace Reid. Today the film is lost.

Actors

John Barrymore

(Brooke Travers)Ivan F. Simpson

(Simpson)
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