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
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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
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
John Qualen
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Allen Fox
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
Nora Cecil
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Margaret Robertson
Minor Role
Walter James
Police Marshal James Henry
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