Back Street
6.7
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.
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Charles Boyer
Walter Louis Saxel
Known for
Gaslight
The Earrings of Madame de...
Margaret Sullavan
Ray Smith
Known for
The Shop Around the Corner
The Mortal Storm
Richard Carlson
Curt Stanton
Known for
Creature from the Black Lagoon
It Came from Outer Space
Frank McHugh
Ed Porter
Known for
Going My Way
The Roaring Twenties
Tim Holt
Richard Saxel
Known for
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Magnificent Ambersons
Frank Jenks
Harry Niles
Known for
His Girl Friday
Woman on the Run
Howard C. Hickman
Williams
Esther Dale
Mrs. Smith
Known for
The Awful Truth
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Peggy Stewart
Freda Smith
Known for
That's My Boy
The Riches
Samuel S. Hinds
Felix Darren
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
You Can't Take It with You
Nell O'Day
Elizabeth Saxel
Also in
The Road to Ruin
Woman in the Dark
Nella Walker
Corinne Saxel
Known for
Sabrina
I Love You Again
Robert Stevenson Director · Bruce Manning Screenplay Felix Jackson Screenplay
United States release February 7, 1941 · Produced in United States
Production
Universal Pictures
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · February 7, 1941
Theatrical
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