Movie

Back Street

1941★ 7.3 · 131h 29mDrama

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.

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Cast

Charles Boyer
as Walter Louis Saxel

Irving Bacon
as Ticket seller

Charles Lane
as Reporter for Associated News

Richard Carlson
as Curt Stanton

Tim Holt
as Richard Saxel

Peggy Stewart
as Freda Smith

Frank McHugh
as Ed Porter

Samuel S. Hinds
as Felix Darren

Dick Elliott
as Hotel desk clerk

Margaret Sullavan
as Ray Smith

Mary Forbes
as Mrs. Williams

Howard Hickman
as Williams