Drama Romance
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
Walter James
Police Marshal James Henry
David Landau
Mr. Frank Maurrant
Sylvia Sidney
Rose Maurrant
Louis Natheaux
Walter Miller
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
Estelle Taylor
Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Marcia Mae Jones
Matt McHugh
Vincent Jones
Beulah Bondi
Emma Jones
John Qualen
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Adele Watson
Olga Olsen
Dorothy Vernon
Jane Mercer
Minor Role
Buddy Roosevelt
Russell Hopton
Steve Sankey
Greta Granstedt
Mae Jones
William Collier Jr.
Sam Kaplan
George Humbert
Filippo Fiorentino
Nora Cecil
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Virginia Davis
Eric Mayne
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
Allen Fox
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
Margaret Robertson
Minor Role
Max Montor
Abe Kaplan
T.H. Manning
George Jones
Conway Washburne
Danny Buchanan
Ann Kostant
Shirley Kaplan
Lambert Rogers
Willie Maurrant
Helen Lovett
Laura Hildebrand
Richard Powell
Officer Harry Murphy
Monte Carter
Minor Role (as Monti Carter)
Harry Wallace
Fred Cullen
Florence Enright
Tiny Jones

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