Back Pay
08/01/1922
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.
Drama
Movie Information
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
