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Back Street (1941)

Back Street (1941)

Drama
Release Date: 1941, February 7
Directors: Robert Stevenson
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures
Cast: Howard Hickman, Irving Bacon, Samuel S. Hinds, Charles Lane, Dick Elliott, Peggy Stewart, Ludwig Stössel, Charles Boyer, Mary Forbes, Tim Holt, Richard Carlson, Nella Walker

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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