The Pagan (1929)

Directed by

W. S. Van Dyke

Genre

silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A romantic drama set in Tahiti. A man lives a simple life on the island until his peaceful existence is disrupted by love and conflict.

romantictropicalmelancholiclyricalslow-pacednostalgicquiet

What happens

The Pagan is a 1929 synchronized sound romantic drama filmed in Tahiti and produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. Both director W. S. Van Dyke and cinematographer Clyde De Vinna had previously visited Tahiti in 1928 to film White Shadows in the South Seas. The Pagan stars Ramon Novarro. The film has a slight resemblance in story to an earlier Novarro silent, Where the Pavement Ends (1923), directed by Rex Ingram and now lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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