The Dictator

“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.”

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!

Director

James Cruze

Screenplay

Richard Harding Davis

Screenplay

Walter Woods

Status

Released

Release date

25/06/1922

Original language

English