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.
Cast
- Sylvia Sidney as Rose Maurrant
- William Collier Jr. as Sam Kaplan
- Estelle Taylor as Mrs. Anna Maurrant
- Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones
- David Landau as Mr. Frank Maurrant
- Matt McHugh as Vincent Jones
- Russell Hopton as Steve Sankey
- Greta Granstedt as Mae Jones
- Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
- John Qualen as Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)