The simple story of LIFE through the window pane of the house across the street.
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.
- 6.7
- 1931
- Released
- 1h 18m
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 WorkerMargaret Robertson
Minor Role
Walter James
Police Marshal James HenryMax Montor
Abe Kaplan
Walter Miller
Bert Easter - Rose's BossT.H. Manning
George JonesConway Washburne
Danny BuchananAnn Kostant
Shirley Kaplan
Adele Watson
Olga OlsenLambert Rogers
Willie Maurrant
George Humbert
Filippo FiorentinoHelen Lovett
Laura HildebrandRichard Powell
Officer Harry Murphy
Jane Mercer
Minor RoleMonte Carter
Minor Role (as Monti Carter)Harry Wallace
Fred Cullen
Virginia Davis
Florence Enright
Marcia Mae Jones
Tiny Jones
Dorothy Vernon
Eric Mayne
Louis Natheaux
Buddy Roosevelt
Released
en
$584,000.00
- #infidelity
- #new york city
- #neighbor
- #summer
- #tenement
- #gossip
- #apartment building
- #pre-code
- #jealous husband
- #melting pot
- #heatwave
- #apartment
- #husband murders wife
- #street scene
