The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Directed by King Vidor
infidelity
new york city
neighbor
summer
tenement
gossip
apartment building
pre-code
jealous husband
melting pot
heatwave
apartment
husband murders wife
disheartening
street scene
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.8 / 5
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Cast
Sylvia Sidney
Rose Maurrant
William Collier Jr.
Sam Kaplan
Estelle Taylor
Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Beulah Bondi
Emma Jones
David Landau
Mr. Frank Maurrant
Matt McHugh
Vincent Jones
Russell Hopton
Steve Sankey
Greta Granstedt
Mae Jones
John Qualen
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Nora Cecil
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Walter James
Police Marshal James Henry
Walter Miller
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
Crew
King Vidor
Director
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Alfred Newman
Music Director
Alfred Newman
Music
Popular Reviews
5 reviews
Eula
7.8★ · 08/04/22
here's hoping we truly don't miss much from waiting
here's hoping we truly don't miss much from waiting
