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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.
Theatrical
Sep 5, 1931
Budget
$584K
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 19, 2000
Theaters
1
Cast
Full credits →S
Sylvia Sidney
Rose Maurrant
W
William Collier Jr.
Sam Kaplan
E
Estelle Taylor
Mrs. Anna Maurrant
B
Beulah Bondi
Emma Jones
D
David Landau
Mr. Frank Maurrant
M
Matt McHugh
Vincent Jones
R
Russell Hopton
Steve Sankey
G
Greta Granstedt
Mae Jones
E
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
J
John Qualen
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
A
Allen Fox
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
N
Nora Cecil
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
M
Margaret Robertson
Minor Role
W
Walter James
Police Marshal James Henry
W
Walter Miller
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
A
Adele Watson
Olga Olsen
L
Lambert Rogers
Willie Maurrant
G
George Humbert
Filippo Fiorentino
R
Richard Powell
Officer Harry Murphy
J
Jane Mercer
Minor Role
