# Pagan Passions

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{{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](/source/Colin_Campbell_(director))
| producer =
| writer =  [Grace Sanderson Michie](/source/Grace_Sanderson_Michie) (story)
| narrator =
| starring = [Wyndham Standing](/source/Wyndham_Standing)<br>[June Elvidge](/source/June_Elvidge)<br>[Barbara Bedford](/source/Barbara_Bedford_(actress))
| music = 
| cinematography = [Joseph Brotherton](/source/Joseph_Brotherton_(cinematographer))
| editing = 
| studio = Rellimeo Film Syndicate 
| distributor = [Selznick Pictures](/source/Selznick_Pictures)
| released = {{Film date|1924|03|}}
| runtime = 6 [reels](/source/film_reel)
| country = United States
| language = [Silent](/source/Silent_film) (English [intertitle](/source/intertitle)s)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Pagan Passions''''' is a lost 1924 American [silent](/source/silent_film) [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Colin Campbell](/source/Colin_Campbell_(director)) and starring [Wyndham Standing](/source/Wyndham_Standing), [June Elvidge](/source/June_Elvidge), and [Barbara Bedford](/source/Barbara_Bedford_(actress)).<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](/source/Wyndham_Standing) as John Dangerfield 
* [June Elvidge](/source/June_Elvidge) as Mrs. Dangerfield 
* [Barbara Bedford](/source/Barbara_Bedford_(actress)) as Shirley Dangerfield 
* [Raymond McKee](/source/Raymond_McKee) as Billy Dangerfield 
* [Sam De Grasse](/source/Sam_De_Grasse) as Frank Langley 
* [Rosemary Theby](/source/Rosemary_Theby) as Dreka Langley 
* [Tully Marshall](/source/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](/source/lost_film).

==References==
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==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}}

{{Colin Campbell}}

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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