Directed by:
King VidorScreenplay:
Elmer RiceCast:
Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, David Landau, Russell Hopton, Walter Miller, John Qualen, George Humbert, Louis Natheaux (more)Plots(1)
During a hot summer in New York, the stoop and the sidewalk in front of a tenement becomes the stage for the building’s residents. The women gather to gossip, joined by the men returning home from work. Political opinions are exchanged and anti-Semitic sentiments rise to the surface. Two couples emerge from the polyphony – Anna Maurrant is an attractive woman married to the somewhat brutish Frank, and their daughter Rose and her shy secret admirer Sam. Rose’s boss is sexually harassing her, mother Anna is sleeping with the milkman. When her husband discovers them, tragedy unfolds. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Sylvia Sidney
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Dead End (1937)
An Early Frost (1985) (TV movie)
William Collier Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Little Caesar (1931)
Cimarron (1931)
Estelle Taylor
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Show People (1928)
Beulah Bondi
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
David Landau
USA
Best movies:
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Judge Priest (1934)
Russell Hopton
USA
Best movies:
'G' Men (1935)
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
Walter Miller
USA
Best movies:
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Virginia City (1940)
The Raven (1935)
John Qualen
Canada
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Casablanca (1942)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
George Humbert
Italy
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Louis Natheaux
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Marcia Mae Jones
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
These Three (1936)
The Way We Were (1973)
Buddy Roosevelt
USA
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Storm Warning (1951)
Captain Blood (1935)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Allen Fox
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
The Seventh Cross (1944)
Nora Cecil
UK
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Tiny Jones
UK
Best movies:
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Eric Mayne
Ireland
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Holiday (1938)
Matt McHugh
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Holiday (1938)
Freaks (1932)
Walter James
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
The Kid Brother (1927)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Wilbur Higby
USA
Best movies:
True Heart Susie (1919)
Broken Blossoms (1919)