{{short description|1916 film by Joseph Kaufman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The World's Great Snare | image = The World's Great Snare.jpg | caption = | director = Joseph Kaufman | producer = Adolph Zukor | based_on = {{based on|''The World's Great Snare''|E. Phillips Oppenheim}} | starring = Pauline Frederick<br>Irving Cummings | music = | cinematography = Edward Gheller | editing = | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1916|6|25}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (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.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Moving Picture World, Volume 29|year=1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|page=479}}</ref><ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/16883-THE-WORLDS-GREAT-SNARE |title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''The World's Great Snare'' |work=afi.com |access-date=April 28, 2026}}</ref>
==Cast== thumb|right|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
==Preservation== ''The World's Great Snare'' is currently presumed lost.<ref name=''LOC''>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-05 |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The World's Great Snare'' |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10846/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012515/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10846/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2026-04-28 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref><ref name="deGroat">{{Citation |title=The Pauline Frederick Website: ''The World's Great Snare'' |last=de Groat |first=Greta |date=2008-12-25 |url=https://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/PF/reviews/wgs.htm |publisher=stanford.edu |access-date=April 28, 2026}}</ref> In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.<ref name="Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |access-date=April 28, 2026}}</ref>
==See also== *List of lost films
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|The World's Great Snare}} *{{IMDb title|0007591}} *[http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/worlds.htm Surviving stills from the film]
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