{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Pagan Passions | image = Pagan Passions (1924) - 1.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = Colin Campbell | producer = | writer = Grace Sanderson Michie (story) | narrator = | starring = Wyndham Standing<br>June Elvidge<br>Barbara Bedford | music = | cinematography = Joseph Brotherton | editing = | studio = Rellimeo Film Syndicate | distributor = Selznick Pictures | released = {{Film date|1924|03|}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Pagan Passions''''' is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Wyndham Standing, June Elvidge, and Barbara Bedford.<ref>Goble p. 900</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PaganPassions1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Pagan Passions''] at silentera.com</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="ETR">{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''Pagan Passions'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=35 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=26 April 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n562/mode/1up |accessdate=17 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> 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== {{Cast listing| * Wyndham Standing as John Dangerfield * June Elvidge as Mrs. Dangerfield * Barbara Bedford as Shirley Dangerfield * Raymond McKee as Billy Dangerfield * Sam De Grasse as Frank Langley * Rosemary Theby as Dreka Langley * Tully Marshall as Dr. Trask * Dick Brandon as Little Boy (uncredited) }}
==Preservation== With no copies of ''Pagan Passions'' located in any film archives,<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8122/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Pagan Passions'']</ref> it is a lost film.
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. {{ISBN|9783598114922}}
==External links== {{commons category|Pagan Passions}} *{{IMDb title|0015205}}
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Category:1924 films Category:1924 drama films Category:1924 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American silent drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Colin Campbell Category:Selznick Pictures films Category:1924 American films Category:English-language drama films
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