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Back Pay is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Borzage released in USA on 1 june 1930 with Seena Owen

Back Pay (1930)

Back Pay
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Released in USA 1 june 1930
Length 1h10
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating63% 3.190623.190623.190623.190623.19062

Back Pay is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film with songs, produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., and starring Corinne Griffith and Grant Withers. It is based on a short story by Fannie Hurst. It is a remake of a 1922 silent film Back Pay that starred Seena Owen.

Synopsis

Hester Bevins is tired of life in the small town where she has lived all her life. Although she has a boyfriend, Gerald Smith, who is in love with her, she deserts him and takes a train to New York with a travelling salesman. Bevins meets a rich older man, Charles Wheeler, who provides her with all the luxuries she wants in return for being his girlfriend. One day, Bevins' friends invite her on a motor trip to Hot Springs, which is about thirty miles from her old home town. She decides to visit her old hometown. She encounters Smith, who, thinking that she is still single and has a job in the city, proposes marriage but she refuses saying that it is now impossible. Disillusioned, he signs up for the war and ends up being gassed, suffering lung damage and blindness. When the news reaches Bevins, she immediately goes to see him and attempts to nurse him back to health. When the doctor tells her that Smith has only a short time left to livem Bevins asks Wheeler's permission to marry Smith before he dies. She finds peace and happiness in her brief relationship with Smith. After Smith dies in her arms, Bevins decides to end her sordid relationship with Wheeler and return to working for a living.

Actors

Seena Owen

(Hester Bevins)Corinne Griffith

(Kitty (as Vivian Oakland))Matt Moore

(Jerry Newcombe)Grant Withers

(Gerald)J. Barney Sherry

(Charles G. Wheeler)
And :
Montagu Love
Hallam Cooley
Vivien Oakland
Geneva Mitchell
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