"Back Street" is a story in the best Fannie Hurst tradition of a man and a woman in love, but not married, over a period of some twenty-eight years. The man is Charles Boyer, as suave and guttural as always, and the woman is Margaret Sullavan, who is one of the few women left in Hollywood who rely more upon acting than glamour. With the excellent performances of these lovers, the picture simulates the original novel in every detail. All the emotions and reactions of a twentieth-century working girl and her undercover affair with a famous banker are there in perfect order. So much stirring of the human soul could, however, be fit only for the sensitivities of a disappointed matron, which is the aim of everything Miss Hurst has written.
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