Street Scene (1931)

Director: King Vidor

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.

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)