- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Frank Borzage
- Stars: Seena Owen, Matt Moore, J. Barney Sherry, Ethel Duray, Charles Craig
- keywords: partially lost film
- Production_studio: Cosmopolitan Productions
- Slogan: The woman pays — but what part of the reckoning does she owe?
- The Back Pay is featured in the top rankings of 1922
- #6 in Top Drama Movies of 1922
This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.