| Back Pay | |
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| 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 | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 57 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.[1] It is a remake of a 1922 silent film Back Pay that starred Seena Owen.[2]
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.
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