Strange Idols

{{Infobox film

| name = Strange Idols

| image = Strange Idols (1922) lobby card.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Bernard Durning

| producer =

| screenplay = Jules Furthman

| story = Emil Forst

| starring = Dustin Farnum
Doris Pawn
Philo McCullough
Richard Tucker

| music =

| cinematography = Don Short

| editing =

| studio = Fox Film Corporation

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1922|5|28}}

| runtime = 50 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Strange Idols is a 1922 American drama film directed by Bernard Durning and written by Jules Furthman. The film stars Dustin Farnum, Doris Pawn, Philo McCullough, and Richard Tucker. The film was released on May 28, 1922, by Fox Film Corporation.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/501003/strange-idols |title=Strange Idols (1922) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date= |access-date=May 11, 2019}}{{cite web|author=Janiss Garza |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/strange-idols-v111933 |title=Strange Idols (1922) - Bernard J. Durning |publisher=AllMovie |date= |accessdate=May 11, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/12448-STRANGE-IDOLS |title=Strange Idols |publisher=Catalog.afi.com |date= |accessdate=May 11, 2019}}

Plot

As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Strange Idols |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=14 |issue=25 |page=51 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=June 17, 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald14exhi}} Canadian lumberman Angus MacDonald (Farnum) falls in love at first sight with New York cabaret dancer Ruth Mayo (Pawn) and marries her. Following his hasty marriage, he takes his bride back to the Canadian woods where his financial interests are centered. Ruth, however, longs for New York City and, to keep the peace, they move back to the City where a child is born to them. A strike at the lumber camp takes Angus back to Canada, and during his absence Doris takes the child for a tour of Europe with her old dance partner Ted Raymond (McCullough). Six years later Angus discovers his daughter is the big attraction in the same Broadway cabaret where he met her mother. He rescues her from the midnight show and they go to a hotel where Doris meets them, and there is a reconciliation.

==Cast==

Dustin Farnum as Angus MacDonald
Doris Pawn as Ruth Mayo
Philo McCullough as Ted Raymond
Richard Tucker as Malcolm Sinclair
Vonda Phelps as Daughter at 7 Years Old

Preservation

With no prints of Strange Idols located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9567/default.html American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Strange Idols] it is a lost film.