Sylvia Sidney
Rose Maurrant
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Synopsis
On a hot evening outside a New York tenement, neighbours exchange gossip and watch one another's lives. Suspicions about an affair coexist with a young woman's efforts to escape unwanted attention. Across a single day, the shared street becomes a place of intimacy and danger.
Cast
DirectorsKing Vidor
Inspirations
Elmer Rice adapted his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The concentration on one building's exterior preserves a theatrical unity while allowing King Vidor to examine a community through faces, windows and shared public space.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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- Sylvia Sidney — Paramount Pictures · Public domain
- William Collier Jr. — Eugene Robert Richee · Public domain
- Estelle Taylor — Russell Ball (1891–1942) · Public domain
- Beulah Bondi — NBC Television · Public domain
