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.
Date:
09/05/1931
Rating:
6.7
Cast:
Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, David Landau, Matt McHugh, Russell Hopton, Greta Granstedt, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, John Qualen, Allen Fox, Nora Cecil, Margaret Robertson, Walter James, Max Montor, Walter Miller, T.H. Manning, Conway Washburne, Ann Kostant, Adele Watson, Lambert Rogers, George Humbert, Helen Lovett, Richard Powell, Jane Mercer, Monte Carter, Harry Wallace, Virginia Davis, Florence Enright, Marcia Mae Jones, Tiny Jones, Dorothy Vernon, Eric Mayne, Louis Natheaux, Buddy Roosevelt