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Back Street (1941)
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Drama · 1h 29m
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.
Cast
Charles Boyer
Walter Louis Saxel
Margaret Sullavan
Ray Smith
Richard Carlson
Curt Stanton
Frank McHugh
Ed Porter
Tim Holt
Richard Saxel
Frank Jenks
Harry Niles
Esther Dale
Mrs. Smith
Peggy Stewart
Freda Smith
Samuel S. Hinds
Felix Darren
Nell O'Day
Elizabeth Saxel
Nella Walker
Corinne Saxel
Cecil Cunningham
Mrs. Miller
Crew
- Director
- Robert Stevenson
- Screenplay
- Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson
- Novel
- Fannie Hurst
- Original Music Composer
- Frank Skinner
Details
- Release date
- 1941-02-07
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures