Back Pay

Back Pay

90 mins | Drama | Jan. 8, 1922

This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.

Back Pay

90 mins | Drama | Jan. 8, 1922

Back Pay
This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.
Producers Cosmopolitan Productions
Original title Back Pay
Directors Frank Borzage
Writers Fannie Hurst, Frances Marion

Cast

Seena Owen

as Hester Bevins

Matt Moore

as Jerry Newcombe

J. Barney Sherry

as Charles G. Wheeler

Ethel Duray

as Kitty

Charles Craig

as Speed

Jerry Sinclair

as Thomas Craig