Pursued by a cab driver for an unpaid fare, a millionaire's son, Brooke Travers (Wallace Reid), hides on a steamer, and both men find themselves en route to South America, where they are caught up in a revolution. Brooke falls in love with Juanita (Lila Lee), then learns that she is the daughter of the leader of the revolution and his father's enemy.
p{margin:0 0 1.2em}a{color:#0E7490;text-decoration:underline}strong{color:#EAB308}em{color:#C2410C} Paramount’s 1922 one-reel-too-many miracle, The Dictator, survives only in shards of nitrate and rumor, yet even those tatters vibrate like a plucked banduria at dusk. If you sift through the Library of Congress’s digit...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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" p{margin:0 0 1.2em}a{color:#0E7490;text-decoration:underline}strong{color:#EAB308}em{color:#C2410C} Paramount’s 1922 one-reel-too-many miracle, The Dictator, survives only in shards of nitrate and rumor, yet even those tatters vibrate like a plucked banduria at dusk. If you sift through the Library of Congress’s digitized Paper Prints long enough, a ghost surfaces: Wallace Reid—matinee Apollo, doomed dope-martyr—clad in a linen suit now the color of dried blood, sprinting across a gangway while..."
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