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Street Scene

(1931)

September 5, 1931• 1h 18m
67%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

King Vidor

Director

Top Billed Cast

SS

Sylvia Sidney

Rose Maurrant

WCJ

William Collier Jr.

Sam Kaplan

ET

Estelle Taylor

Mrs. Anna Maurrant

BB

Beulah Bondi

Emma Jones

DL

David Landau

Mr. Frank Maurrant

MM

Matt McHugh

Vincent Jones

RH

Russell Hopton

Steve Sankey

GG

Greta Granstedt

Mae Jones

EW

Eleanor Wesselhoeft

Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino

JQ

John Qualen

Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)

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