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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]

Back to Life
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Directed by	Whitman Bennett
Written by	Harry Chandlee
Based on	Back From the Dead by Andrew Soutar
Produced by	Whitman Bennett
Starring	Patsy Ruth Miller David Powell Lawford Davidson
Cinematography	Edward Paul[1]
Production company	Postman Pictures
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange Butcher's Film Service (UK)
Release date	February 22, 1925 (1925-02-22)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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

Bibliography

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

External links

• Back to Life at IMDb

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