Back Street
- Released on
- Runtime
- 89 mins
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.
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
- Margaret Sullavan
- Richard Carlson
- Frank McHugh
- Tim Holt
- Frank Jenks
- Esther Dale
- Peggy Stewart
- Samuel S. Hinds
- Nell O'Day
- Nella Walker
- Cecil Cunningham
- Irving Bacon
- Howard Hickman
- Mary Forbes
- Charles Lane
- Joseph Crehan
- Dick Elliott
- Ludwig Stössel
- Selmer Jackson
Director
- Robert Stevenson
Producers
Screenwriter
- Bruce Manning
- Felix Jackson
