The Dictator

Name: The Dictator
Director: James Cruze
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Released: 1922-06-25
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 8
Cast: Wallace Reid, Theodore Kosloff, Lila Lee, Kalla Pasha, Sidney Bracey

“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.”

1922

Adventure Drama Romance

Director: James Cruze

Writers: Richard Harding Davis, Walter Woods

Overview

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!