À Lincoln, l'ambitieuse designer aspirante Rae Smith a un incident avec un homme d'affaires et est sauvée par Paul Saxon.À Lincoln, l'ambitieuse designer aspirante Rae Smith a un incident avec un homme d'affaires et est sauvée par Paul Saxon.À Lincoln, l'ambitieuse designer aspirante Rae Smith a un incident avec un homme d'affaires et est sauvée par Paul Saxon.
- Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 1 nomination au total
Joseph Cronin
- Airport Clerk
- (as Joe Cronin)
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- AnecdotesA clip of Rae saying goodbye to Paul the marine is featured at the beginning of Stevie Wonder's "Part-Time Lover" music video as a couple watches "Back Street" on TV.
- GaffesAfter Rae's confrontation with Paul's son, she drives out to the country house and turns off the paved road onto a dirt road. But, in the next shot, the rear-screen projection still shows the paved road.
- Citations
Paul Saxon: [presenting her with a framed portrait of himself] Do you think you can build a room around that?
Rae Smith: Why not? I've built a life around it.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Universal Story (1996)
- Bandes originalesSymphony No. 4 in E minor I. Allegro non troppo
Composed by Johannes Brahms
Commentaire en vedette
When first released some forty years ago, critics rightly complained about the soap-opera plot, the melodramatic dialog, the stock characters, and the excessive showcasing of sets and costumes. These complaints are still valid, but over the course of four decades, a realization has emerged that despite or even because of these failings, "Back Street" is a gloriously entertaining work that plays just as well now as it did back in 1961. How many other movies can claim this sort of durability? I would, however, like to point out five faults in the production. (1) Susan Hayward is a good ten or even fifteen years too old for this part. (2) The film's supposed message about the emptiness of being the "other woman" is blunted by the opulent success in which Hayward lives. (3) Vera Miles' character is so selfish and shrewish that one can't imagine why John Gavin ever married her. There should have been a line about how he'd been forced into an "arranged" marriage in order to save the family business. (4) When Gavin and Hayward meet for the first time in New York, after their initial encounter in Nebraska, he seems surprised to learn that she's now the famous fashion-designer who signs her creations "rae" -- all small letters, very chic -- even though she'd specifically told him of her plans at their first meeting. How many fashion-designers named "rae" did he think there were in the world? (5) One must wait more than forty minutes before Gavin takes his shirt off, and then he just has a dimly-lit scene where he and Hayward run out of the ocean in modest swim-wear before reclining on a beach towel. Gavin's physique deserved much more exposure than this.
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- Durée1 heure 47 minutes
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By what name was Back Street (1961) officially released in India in English?
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