Back Street

Back Street (1941) — drama film. Directed by Robert Stevenson. Starring Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh. This page maps 2 characters and 1 relationships between them as an interactive character network.

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A tragic romance exploring the sacrifices and social consequences of an enduring extramarital affair across decades.

Drama · 7.3/10 · 89 min · 1941

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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