Pagan Passions is a lost 1924 American silent film drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Wyndham Standing, June Elvidge, and Barbara Bedford.[Goble p. 900][ Progressive Silent Film List: Pagan Passions at silentera.com]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,
[ ] 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,
[ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Pagan Passions] it is a
lost film.
Bibliography
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Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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