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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