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The Way Back (1922)

251014-210425-012000 This was declined for so-called "lack of evidence" because the evidence I cited is a print source, and a pretty substantial one at that.

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Hi scott_l1zxrc3yyo2sw- Thank you for posting the submission reference! You are welcome to resubmit it and I will suggest that if you have any further evidence, as the ones mentioned on our guide below, to include them so that our staff can take another look. https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/adding-a-new-title/GNXTSSVTJTFCRZGN?ref_=helpart_nav_1#evidence Cheers!

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I sent an e-mail to the author of the book, but I haven't found anything about it online apart from adding it to the Wikipedia entires for Paton and Mayo. All the author showed was a budget sheet theat mentioned production dates, production number, and the info I added. The only unusual item on the budget sheet is horses.

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I put a link referencing it from The Moving Picture World. I suspect it may have been the working title for The Man Who Married His Own Wife because Motion Picture News said it was written by John Fleming Wilson. The May 1 release date seems likely for a film shot in December-January at the time.

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Hi scott_l1zxrc3yyo2sw Feel free to re submit the Title when you have more evidence for us to make sure the existence of the Title. https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/adding-a-new-title/GNXTSSVTJTFCRZGN?ref_=helpart_nav_1#evidence

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Hi! I've submitted to merge The Way Back [tt38705271] to The Man Who Married His Own Wife [tt0013361] However, the submission #251019-192648-593000 is pending three days over its scheduled time. As scott_l1zxrc3yyo2sw previously said "it may have been the working title for The Man Who Married His Own Wife". Here is a quote from the Motion Picture News [https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew25marc/page/1967/mode/1up?q=%22the+way+back%22] of April 1922: "Frank Mayo will next appear in a story by the late John Fleming Wilson, temporarily titled 'The Way Back.' Stuart Paton directed and the star is supported by a cast including Sylvia Breamer, Francis MacDonald, Joseph Gerard, Howard Crampton and Marie Crisp. It is a sea story." As we can see, "The Way Back" was a temporary title of the movie, and the list of its cast is equal to the cast of The Man Who Married His Own Wife [tt0013361] which is also a sea story. I've found no announcements of a release of "The Way Back" with the same cast in 1920s.