Back to Life is a 20-minute silent film. It was released on November 24, 1913. The movie stared William Worthington as The Gambler, Pauline Bush as The Wife, J. Warren Kerrigan as Jim the Outlaw, Jessalyn Van Trump as The Girl, and Lon Chaney as The Rival. The film is now considered lost.
Plot:
A gambler brings his sick wife to the mountains after they learn she has tuberculosis and needed special care. The gambler soon becomes tired of having to care for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon. The wife would soon find out about the infidelity and would walk out to the woods to die.
In the woods, the wife would find an outlaw called Jim. He was weak from blood loss and she would nurse him back to health. Jim in turn for her help takes her to a cabin with an elderly couple in the hills. They would then nurse her back to health.
The wife still loved her husband and decided to return to gain his love back. When she returned home though she finds that he had been shot and killed by a rival in a saloon brawl. She would then go to Jim and the two would find happiness together.
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