The World's Great Snare

1916 film by Joseph Kaufman
  • June 25, 1916 (1916-06-25)
Running time
50 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The World's Great Snare is a 1916 American silent drama film produced by Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a 1900 novel of the same name by E. Phillips Oppenheim and was directed by Joseph Kaufman. The film stars Pauline Frederick, a noted stage actress, and Irving Cummings, later a director, is the male lead.[1] The film is now considered lost.[2]

Cast

Film still
  • Pauline Frederick as Myra
  • Irving Cummings as Byran
  • Ferdinand Tidmarsh as Huntley
  • Frank Evans as Pete
  • Riley Hatch as Almes Rutten
  • Buckley Starkey as Skein

See also

References

  1. ^ The Moving Picture World, Volume 29. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1916. p. 479.
  2. ^ The World's Great Snare at Unsung Divas website: The Pauline Frederick website

External links

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