Street Scene

1931

English

7.6

♡ 7

89%

King Vidor Director

Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones

John Qualen as Karl Olsen

Sylvia Sidney as Rose Maurrant

William Collier Jr. as Sam Kaplan

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.