Back Street (1941)
Directed by Robert Stevenson · 89 min · Drama
3.6 TOPICAL score · #6,337 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Back Street (1941, directed by Robert Stevenson) has a TOPICAL score of 3.6 - ranked 6,337 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and lasting engagement, and lowest on cast. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 7.3/10 (13 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 8 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 7.3/10 (13 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 8 languages
- Still read2,249 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Charles Boyer (actor #620), Margaret Sullavan (actor #1,532), Richard Carlson (actor #1,802), Frank McHugh (actor #1,651)