Back Street

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1941 · 89 min · Drama · TMDB 7.3/10

Overview

In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.

Directed by Robert Stevenson

Cast

• Charles Boyer — Walter Louis Saxel
• Margaret Sullavan — Ray Smith
• Richard Carlson — Curt Stanton
• Frank McHugh — Ed Porter
• Tim Holt — Richard Saxel