Street Scene

1931

Drama / Romance

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 72% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 2372 2.4K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

King Vidor Photo
King Vidor

Top cast

William Collier Jr. Photo
William Collier Jr. as Sam Kaplan
John Qualen Photo
John Qualen as Karl Olsen
Beulah Bondi Photo
Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones
Sylvia Sidney Photo
Sylvia Sidney as Rose Maurrant
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
730.85 MB
942*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
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1.33 GB
1412*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

Gossips, Small Talks, Adultery and Murders in a Hot Summer Day in New York

In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones (Beulah Bondi) gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant (Estelle Taylor) and the milkman Steve Sankey (Russell Hopton). When the rude Mr. Frank Maurrant (David Landau) arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant (Sylvia Sidney) is sexually harassed by her boss Mr. Bert Easter (Walter Miller); however, she likes her Jewish neighbor Sam (William Collier Jr.) that has a crush on her. On the next morning, Frank tells that is traveling to Stanford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home in an announced tragedy. "Street Scene" is an unknown early sound movie directed by King Vidor based on a play of Elmer Rice that explores the new technology to the maximum. The awesome story of gossips, small talks, adultery and murders in a hot day in New York has witty and feral dialogs associated to excellent performances and magnificent camera work. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "No Turbilhão da Metrópole" ("In the Whirlpool of the Metropolis")
Reviewed by mengel44 8 / 10

A wonderful antique

It shows its age, and that's part of its charm. It's filled with old-fashioned ethnic stereotypes, but that makes it even more fascinating. This movie is a time machine; hop into it and you'll see a gritty and realistic picture of working-class New York City life in the early 1930s. It's pre-Code, so the language is blunt and the sexuality more open. The plot isn't Shakespeare, but it grabs onto you anyway, and the characters are so attractive and watchable that you become part of their neighborhood. A piece of cinematic and social history that is well worth your 80 minutes of time.
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