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Back Pay
(1922) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6460 feet
Directed by Frank Borzage

Cast: Seena Owen [Hester Bevins], Matt Moore [Jerry Newcombe], J. Barney Sherry [Charles G. Wheeler], Ethel Duray [Kitty], Charles Craig [‘Speed’], Jerry Sinclair [Thomas Craig]

Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by International Film Service Company, Incorporated, through Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Frances Marion, from the short story “Back Pay” by Fannie Hurst. Set design by Joseph Urban. Cinematography by Chester Lyons. / © 8 January 1922 by Cosmopolitan Productions (International Film Service Company, Incorporated) [LP17459]. Released 8 January 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama: Society.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 16 October 2011.

References: LoC-Copy-1922 p. 93; Screenland-192204 p. 8 : Website-AFI.