Pagan Passions | |
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Directed by | Colin Campbell |
Written by | Grace Sanderson Michie (story) |
Starring | Wyndham Standing June Elvidge Barbara Bedford |
Cinematography | Joseph Brotherton |
Production company | Rellimeo Film Syndicate |
Distributed by | Selznick Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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]
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.
With no copies of Pagan Passions located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.
Barbara Bedford was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945.
June Elvidge was an early 20th-century silent film actress. She was of English and Irish descent.
Charles Wyndham Standing was an English film actor.
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