
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.
Genres:

Sylvia Sidney as Rose Maurrant

William Collier Jr. as Sam Kaplan

Estelle Taylor as Mrs. Anna Maurrant

Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones

David Landau as Mr. Frank Maurrant

Matt McHugh as Vincent Jones

Russell Hopton as Steve Sankey

Greta Granstedt as Mae Jones

Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino

John Qualen as Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)

Allen Fox as Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)

Nora Cecil as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker

Margaret Robertson as Minor Role

Walter James as Police Marshal James Henry

Max Montor as Abe Kaplan

Walter Miller as Bert Easter - Rose's Boss

T.H. Manning as George Jones

Conway Washburne as Danny Buchanan

Ann Kostant as Shirley Kaplan

Adele Watson as Olga Olsen

Lambert Rogers as Willie Maurrant

George Humbert as Filippo Fiorentino

Helen Lovett as Laura Hildebrand

Richard Powell as Officer Harry Murphy

Jane Mercer as Minor Role

Monte Carter as Minor Role (as Monti Carter)

Harry Wallace as Fred Cullen

Virginia Davis as

Florence Enright as

Marcia Mae Jones as

Tiny Jones as

Dorothy Vernon as

Eric Mayne as

Louis Natheaux as

Buddy Roosevelt as
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