The Passion Flower

For other films with the same or similar titles, see Passion Flower (disambiguation).

The Passion Flower
File:The Passion Flower (1921).jpg Film still
Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Produced by	Norma Talmadge
Written by	Herbert Brenon Mary Murillo
Based on	play The Unloved Woman by Jacinto Benavente
Starring	Norma Talmadge Courtenay Foote Eulalie Jensen
Cinematography	J. Roy Hunt
Production company	Norma Talmadge Film Corporation
Distributed by	Associated First National Pictures
Release dates	April 3, 1921 (1921-04-03)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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.

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 (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

External links

• The Passion Flower at IMDb
• The Passion Flower at the TCM Movie Database
• The Passion Flower at AllMovie