{"product_id":"0089218457295","title":"Back Door to Heaven","description":"\"William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the \"\"right stuff\"\" with the modest tearjerker Back Door to Heaven. Wallace Ford stars as Frankie, a pugnacious drifter stigmatized by his reform-school upbringing. Frankie and his former \"\"classmate\"\" Jud (Stu Erwin) try to go straight, but get mixed up in a robbery, during which a man is killed. Though not responsible for the murder, it is Frankie who is railroaded to the death house. Nonetheless, he manages to bust out -- just in time for his grammar school class reunion, presided over by teacher Miss Williams (Aline MacMahon), the only person who ever tried to give Frankie a break. Despite severe storytelling shortcomings and gaping logic holes, director Howard managed to make a silk purse out of the critically acclaimed Back Door to Heaven. However, what may once have been social realism, now seems more like a sentimental, mawkish melodrama.\"","brand":"GOTHAM DIST. CORP..***","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47091693224176,"sku":"0089218457295","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0089218457295","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}