The World's Great Snare

The World's Great Snare
Directed byJoseph Kaufman
Based on
The World's Great Snare
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Produced byAdolph Zukor
StarringPauline Frederick
Irving Cummings
CinematographyEdward Gheller
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • June 25, 1916 (1916-06-25)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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][2]

Cast

Film still

Preservation

The World's Great Snare is currently presumed lost.[3][4] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Moving Picture World, Volume 29. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1916. p. 479.
  2. ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The World's Great Snare". afi.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2026. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
  3. ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The World's Great Snare". memory.loc.gov. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
  4. ↑ de Groat, Greta (December 25, 2008), The Pauline Frederick Website: The World's Great Snare, stanford.edu, archived from the original on December 18, 2024, retrieved April 28, 2026
  5. ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 20, 2025. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
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