The Dictator (1915 film)

{{Short description|1915 film by Edwin S. Porter}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Dictator

| image = The Dictator 1915 lobbyposter.jpg

| caption = Lobby poster

| director = Oscar Eagle
? Edwin S. Porter

| producer = Adolph Zukor,
Charles Frohman Company

| writer =

| based_on = {{based on|The Dictator|Richard Harding Davis}}

| starring = John Barrymore

| music =

| cinematography =

| studio = Famous Players Film Company

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1915|6|21}}

| runtime = 5 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

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The Dictator is a 1915 American silent comedy film 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 both films are lost.[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/Dictator1915.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Dictator] at silentera.com[http://ibdb.com/show.php?id=3069 The Dictator as produced on Broadway at the Criterion Theatre beginning in 1904]The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988John Barrymore, A Bio-bibliography by Martin E. Norden, c. 1995 (films rereleased by Paramount as part of "Success-Series")

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