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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.[1][2]

Back Pay
Directed by	William A. Seiter
Screenplay by	Francis Edward Faragoh
Story by	Fannie Hurst
Produced by	Walter Morosco William A. Seiter
Starring	Corinne Griffith Grant Withers
Cinematography	John F. Seitz
Edited by	Ray Curtiss
Music by	Cecil Copping Alois Reiser
Production company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	June 1, 1930 (1930-06-01) (United States)
Running time	57 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English

A woman leaves her hometown and her boyfriend, and becomes a kept woman in New York. Her former boyfriend returns from a war, blind and with injured lungs. The woman attempts to nurse him back to health, although she has been warned that he is dying.

Synopsis

Hester Bevins is tired of living 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 traveling 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 30 mi (48 km) from her old hometown, which she decides to visit.

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 live, 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.

Cast

• Corinne Griffith - Hester Bevins
• Grant Withers - Gerald Smith
• Montagu Love - Charles G. Wheeler
• Hallam Cooley - Al Bloom
• Vivien Oakland - Kitty (* billed as Vivian Oakland)
• Geneva Mitchell - Babe
• William Bailey - Ed

Songs

• "They Didn't Believe Me" [music and lyrics by Jerome Kern] Sung by Corrine Griffith

Preservation

Back Pay has been preserved in the Library of Congress.[3] The film has been shown on television and cable. Back Pay was released on DVD by the Warner Archive Collection in Spring 2012.

References

External links

• Back Pay at IMDb
• Back Pay at AllMovie

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