Back to Life (1925 film)
{{short description|1925 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Back to Life
| image = Back to Life (1925) - 1.jpg
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Whitman Bennett
| producer = Whitman Bennett
| writer = Harry Chandlee
| based_on = {{basedon|Back From the Dead|Andrew Soutar}}
| starring = Patsy Ruth Miller
David Powell
Lawford Davidson
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography = Edward Paul
| studio = Postman Pictures
| distributor = Pathé Exchange
Butcher's Film Service (UK)
| released = {{Film date|1925|02|22}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
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.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BackToLife1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Back to Life] at silentera.comMunden p. 34
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: Back to Life |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=20 |issue=9 |pages=52 |date=21 February 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald20unse/page/943/mode/1up |access-date=1 December 2021}} 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
{{Cast listing|
- Patsy Ruth Miller as Margaret Lothbury
- David Powell as John Lothbury
- Lawford Davidson as Wallace Straker
- Mary Thurman as Jane Porter
- George Stewart as Arthur Lothbury
- Frederick Burton as Henry Porter
- Frankie Evans as Sonny Lothbury
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Back to Life located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3564/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Back to Life] it is a lost film.
References
{{Reflist}}
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
{{commons category|Back to Life (1925 film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0015591}}
Category:1920s war drama films
Category:Films directed by Whitman Bennett
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American World War I films
Category:Films based on British novels
Category:Silent American war drama films
Category:English-language war drama films
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