The Dictator
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Cast & Crew
Oscar Eagle
John Barrymore
Charlotte Ives
Ruby Hoffman
Ivan Simpson
Walter Craven
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Synopsis
Wealthy Brooke Travers leaves with his valet to go on a cruise, but en route, Brooke's argument with a taxi driver over the fare to the docks becomes a fight in which both participants fall into the river. Believing the driver to be dead, the valet rescues Brooke and, to escape the police, takes him aboard a steamer bound for Porto Banos, a Central American republic. On the ship, Brooke falls in love with Lucy Sheridan, who is on her way to marry a missionary she has never met. American consul Colonel Bowie, who is supposed to become Porto Banos' dictator, is afraid he will be assassinated because of the revolutions he has instigated. Feigning fear of yellow fever, Bowie convinces Brooke to leave the boat in his place. After many incidents involving Brooke, Lucy, revolutionaries, the consul's wife, the missionary and an American detective, Brooke is saved from execution when a U.S. battleship arrives.
Director
Oscar Eagle
Cast
John Barrymore
Charlotte Ives
Ruby Hoffman
Ivan Simpson
Walter Craven
Robert Broderick
Esther Lyon
Harry West
Mario Majerino
Thomas Mcgrath
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Scenes in this film were shot in Cuba. The film was re-issued April 13, 1919. Famous Players-Lasky remade the film in 1922, with Wallace Reid as star and James Cruze directing. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.1351.)
