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.
Sylvia Sidney
as Rose Maurrant
William Collier Jr.
as Sam Kaplan
Estelle Taylor
as Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Beulah Bondi
as Emma Jones
David Landau
as Mr. Frank Maurrant
Matt McHugh
as Vincent Jones
Russell Hopton
as Steve Sankey
Greta Granstedt
as Mae Jones
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
as Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
John Qualen
as Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Allen Fox
as Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
Nora Cecil
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
