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Back to Life

A Two Reel Romance of the West
Nov 24, 1913 · 20m
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Drama

PLOT

A gambler brings his sick wife to live in the mountains after learning she has tuberculosis and will need special care. The gambler soon tires of caring for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon. The gambler's wife discovers her husband's infidelity and wanders off into the forest to die. There she finds a hunted outlaw named Jim, weak from loss of blood, and she nurses him back to health. Jim, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, who then nurse her back to health. The wife decides to try to regain her husband's love, but upon returning home, she finds he has been shot dead by a rival (Lon Chaney) in a saloon brawl. She goes back to Jim, and they find happiness together.

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CAST

J. Warren Kerrigan
Jim - Destiny's Victim
Pauline Bush
The Wife
William Worthington
The Gambler
Jessalyn Van Trump
The Charmer
Lon Chaney
The Rival
Directed by Allan Dwan

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Released
Original language
EN
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Production
Universal Pictures Corporation
Country
US
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