Dir. King Vidor · Starring Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, David Landau, Matt McHugh · Music Alfred Newman
“The simple story of LIFE through the window pane of the house across the street.”
DramaRomance
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.
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A sweltering, gossip-fueled summer day in a New York tenement. Tensions simmer and explode amid the close-knit, yet judgmental, community. This pre-code drama feels raw, immediate, and tragically inevitable.
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