Back to Life
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Directed byWhitman Bennett
Written byHarry Chandlee
Based onBack From the Dead
by Andrew Soutar
Produced byWhitman Bennett
StarringPatsy Ruth Miller
David Powell
Lawford Davidson
CinematographyEdward Paul[1]
Production
company
Postman Pictures
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Butcher's Film Service (UK)
Release date
  • February 22, 1925 (1925-02-22)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Back to Life is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by Whitman Bennett and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, David Powell, and Lawford Davidson.[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] Margaret Lothbury receives news that her husband, an American volunteer aviator serving with the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I, died at the front. In reality, John Lothbury has been picked up by a British ambulance unit and placed in a British hospital. Here by the marvelous, newly developed science of facial surgery, Lothbury is given a new face. On return to America he finds his wife married to Wallace Straker, richest man in town. The union is an unhappy one. Lothbury adopts the name Walpole and withholds his identity. He assumes guardianship of his son while the Strakers tour Europe, and while abroad Margaret Lothbury becomes acquainted with the real facts of Lothbury’s disappearance from the battlefield. Later circumstances confirm her suspicions that Walpole is in reality her husband. Revelations follow leading to the re-union of the family.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Back to Life located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

References

  1. 1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: Back to Life at silentera.com
  2. ↑ Munden p. 34
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: Back to Life", Exhibitors Herald, 20 (9): 52, February 21, 1925, retrieved December 1, 2021
  4. ↑ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Back to Life

Bibliography

  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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