Irene Dunne

John Boles

George Meeker

Zasu Pitts

June Clyde

William Bakewell

Arletta Duncan

Doris Lloyd

Paul Weigel

Jane Darwell

Shirley Grey

James Donlan

Walter Catlett

Robert McWade

Gloria Stuart

Betty Blythe

Symona Boniface

Bob Burns

Jack Chefe

Rose Dione

Jim Farley

James Flavin

Maude Turner Gordon

Mahlon Hamilton

Grace Hayle

Russell Hopton

Beulah Hutton

Tom Karrigan

Caryl Lincoln

Gene Morgan

Virginia Pearson

Rosalie Roy

Rolfe Sedan

Suzanne Wood

John M. Stahl

Sherman Clark

Vera West

Alan Jones

Jack Pierce

Paul Hill

Joe Lapis

James Dietrich

David Broekman

Scott R. Beal

Lynn Starling

David C. Werner

Maurice Pivar

Fannie Hurst

E.M. Asher

C. Roy Hunter

Carl Laemmle

Gene Fowler

Gladys Lehman

Carl Laemmle Jr.

Milton Carruth

Charles D. Hall

Karl Freund

Roswell A. Hoffmann

Ben Hecht

Drama

Romance

Back Street

Universal Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Irene Dunne ("Rae") gives a strong performance here as a woman who sacrifices her first love so she can help her step-sister. Many years later, she encounters the successful, married "Walter Saxel" (John Boles) again and they embark on an affair. The plot is simple, and probably rather racy for the early 1930s, but the two stars with some help from Zasu Pitts create a character-driven romantic drama with a sense of kindness and affection belied in the rather poor title. Maybe a touch too long, the story certainly takes a bit too long to get up a head of steam, but it's well worth a watch if you get a chance.

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