

05/09/1931
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.

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)

Allen Fox
as Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)

Nora Cecil
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker

Margaret Robertson
as Minor Role

Walter James
as Police Marshal James Henry

Max Montor
as Abe Kaplan

Walter Miller
as Bert Easter - Rose's Boss

T.H. Manning
as George Jones

Conway Washburne
as Danny Buchanan

Ann Kostant
as Shirley Kaplan

Adele Watson
as Olga Olsen

Lambert Rogers
as Willie Maurrant

George Humbert
as Filippo Fiorentino

Helen Lovett
as Laura Hildebrand

Richard Powell
as Officer Harry Murphy

Jane Mercer
as Minor Role

Monte Carter
as Minor Role (as Monti Carter)

Harry Wallace
as Fred Cullen

Virginia Davis
as

Florence Enright
as

Marcia Mae Jones
as

Tiny Jones
as

Dorothy Vernon
as

Eric Mayne
as

Louis Natheaux
as

Buddy Roosevelt
as
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