Blu-ray Review Back Street (1941) Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

Robert Stevenson’s Back Street, the second of three cinematic treatments of Fannie Hurst’s potboiler, stakes a solid case for its existence, clearly a film of its era and less workable in today’s climate but nevertheless an excellently acted and well-produced version of the story.



Back Street (1941)



Released: 07 Feb 1941
Rated: Approved
Runtime: 89 min




Director: Robert Stevenson
Genre: Drama



Cast: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson
Writer(s): Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson, Fannie Hurst



Plot: Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.



IMDB rating: 6.8
MetaScore: N/A





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[Robert Crawford]

Based on your review, it appears this Blu-ray is derived from an old scan that was used for that DVD TCM Vault Collection that was released a decade ago.

 

[Matt Hough]

The liner notes say it's a new 2K scan, but if it is, they didn't do much else to it after the scan because it's quite artifact-ridden.

 

[Robert Crawford]

The liner notes say it's a new 2K scan, but if it is, they didn't do much else to it after the scan because it's quite artifact-ridden.

A new scan doesn't mean the necessary clean-up work was done to make the presentation more pristine looking.