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The Dictator
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Directed by	James Cruze
Written by	Walter Woods (scenario)
Based on	The Dictator by Richard Harding Davis (play)
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Cinematography	Karl Brown
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 22, 1922 (1922-06-22)
Running time	6 reels (5,221 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Dictator is a 1922 American silent comedy-drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. James Cruze was the director and the star Wallace Reid.^[1]

The basic story had also been filmed in 1915 with John Barrymore who had played a supporting part in the 1904 Broadway starring production of comedian William Collier. Both this film and the 1915 version are now lost.^[2]^[3]

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Wallace Reid as Brooke Travers
Theodore Kosloff as Carlos Rivas
Lila Lee as Juanita
Kalla Pasha as General Campos
Sidney Bracey as Henry Bolton
Fred J. Butler as Sam Travers (credited as Fred Butler)
Walter Long as Mike 'Bigg' Dooley
Alan Hale as Sabos

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The Dictator (1922 film)

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