The Pagan

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.

Van Dyke and cinematographer Clyde De Vinna had previously visited Tahiti in 1928 to film White Shadows in the South Seas.

[1][2] 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.

Trader Henry Slater (Donald Crisp) stops at a South Pacific island looking to obtain a cargo of copra.

Shoesmith is too late to stop the wedding, but while Madge distracts the guests, he carries Tito off to his native home.

Scene from The Pagan