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The World's Great Snare is a american film directed by Joseph Kaufman released in USA on 25 june 1916 with Pauline Frederick

The World's Great Snare (1916)

The World's Great Snare
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Released in USA 25 june 1916
Length 50minutes
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OriginUSA

The World's Great Snare is a 1916 American silent drama film produced by Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a novel of the same name by E. Phillips Oppenheim and was directed by Joseph Kaufman. The film stars Pauline Frederick, a noted stage actress, and Irving Cummings, later a director, is the male lead. The film is now considered lost.

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Pauline Frederick

(Nyra)Irving Cummings

(Byran)
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