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Director
  
Herbert Brenon

Story by
  
Jacinto Benavente

Country
  
United States

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
April 3, 1921 (1921-04-03)

Based on
  
play La Malquerida  by Jacinto Benavente

Writer
  
Jacinto Benavente (play), Herbert Brenon (adaptation), Mary Murillo (adaptation)

Screenplay
  
Herbert Brenon, Mary Murillo

Cast
  
Norma Talmadge
(Acacia - The Passion Flower),
Eulalie Jensen
(Raimunda),
Courtenay Foote
(Esteban),
Natalie Talmadge
(Milagros),
Robert Agnew
(Faustino Eusebio)

Related Herbert Brenon movies
  
Norma Talmadge and others appear in Passion Flower and The Sign on the Door, Peter Pan (1924), Sorrell and Son (1927)

The Passion Flower is a 1921 American drama film starring Norma Talmadge, Courtenay Foote and Eulalie Jensen, and directed by Herbert Brenon. It is based on the 1913 Spanish play The Unloved Woman by Jacinto Benavente. The forbidden love of a man for his stepdaughter leads to tragedy and murder.

Contents

The Library of Congress has a print, though there is a bit of deterioration in the first scene and a "lapse of continuity" near the end of this copy.

Plot

As described in a film publication, Esteban's (Foote) jealousy for his stepdaughter Acacia (Talmadge) results in his servant Rubio (Wilson) telling Acacia's sweetheart Norbert (Ford) that she loves another. Their betrothal is broken, and later Acacia accepts Faustino (Agnew). Rubio kills Faustino, and Norbert is tried for the crime but acquitted. When it becomes known that Esteban was the cause of the murder, he flees into the mountains, but later returns to give himself up. Raimunda (Jensen), Acacia's mother and Esteban's wife, pleads with Acacia to accept the stepfather whom she hates. During the long embrace which follows between Esteban and Acacia, Raimunda learns of Esteban's love for his stepdaughter and her own love turns to hate. Raimunda calls for help and during Esteban's attempt to escape with Acacia he shoots his wife and is then arrested. Raimunda dies in the arms of Acacia.

Cast

  • Norma Talmadge as Acacia, The Passion Flower
  • Courtenay Foote as Esteban
  • Eulalie Jensen as Raimunda
  • Harrison Ford as Norbert
  • Charles A. Stevenson as Tio Eusebio
  • Alice May as Julia Eusebio
  • H. D. McClellan as a Eusebio son
  • Austin Harrison as a Eusebio son
  • Herbert Vance as a Eusebio son
  • Robert Agnew as Faustino Eusebio
  • Harold Stern as Little Carlos
  • Natalie Talmadge as Milagros
  • Mrs. Jacques Martin as Old Juliana
  • Elsa Fredericks as Francesca
  • Robert Paton Gibbs as Norbert's father (credited as Robert Payton Gibb)
  • Augustus Balfour as The Padre
  • Walter Wilson as Rubio
  • Mildred Adams as Doña Isabel
  • Julian Greer as Acacia's father
  • Edward Boring as Bernabe

    • References

    The Passion Flower Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Passion Flower IMDb