Pagan Passions

Pagan Passions is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Wyndham Standing, June Elvidge, and Barbara Bedford.[1][2]

Pagan Passions
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Directed byColin Campbell
Written byGrace Sanderson Michie (story)
StarringWyndham Standing
June Elvidge
Barbara Bedford
CinematographyJoseph Brotherton
Production
company
Rellimeo Film Syndicate
Distributed bySelznick Pictures
Release date
  • March 1924 (1924-03)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] when her husband commits suicide, Dreka Langley leaves her new-born baby with a family in China and falls in love with John Dangerfield, a married man. The two live in the Chinese underworld and Mrs. Dangerfield obtains a divorce. Years later, Dangerfield reforms and seeks seclusion in a Chinese monastery, where he meets and adopts Billy, who is the boy that was deserted by Dreka. Billy is sent to an American college where he meets and falls in love with Shirley, who is Dangerfield's daughter. Billy believes his supposed half-caste nationality is a bar to their marriage, which is removed when Dreka, before dying, identifies Billy as her son. Dangerfield wins back his wife and all ends well.

Cast

Preservation

With no copies of Pagan Passions located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

References
  1. Goble p. 900
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Pagan Passions at silentera.com
  3. Pardy, George T. (April 26, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Pagan Passions". Exhibitors Trade Review. New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 35. Retrieved November 17, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Pagan Passions

Bibliography
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. ISBN 9783598114922
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