Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding and Boris Karloff.

[4][5] Holden, a young English engineer in India, falls in love with the native girl Ameera, so he buys her from her mother.

Their marital union violates the strict social structure they live in.

[6] The film's tagline was "The deathless drama of Ameera, the Hindu girl, and the British engineer, whose "love need no caste."

(Print Ad in the Sunday Chronicle, ((Paterson, NJ)) 4 September 1921)