Back Street
Year: 1961
Runtime: 107 mins
Language: English
Director: David Miller
Rae Smith, an aspiring fashion designer, meets Marine Paul Saxon in Nebraska after WWII. They feel a spark, but he departs and is later revealed to be married. Determined, Rae moves to New York, builds a successful design career, and encounters Paul again. She then relocates to Rome, where they finally begin an affair despite his drunken, hostile wife Liz. Their secret persists until Paul's young son discovers it, endangering Rae’s hard‑won life.
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