6.8 / 10
(28 votes)
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.
United States of America
Drama,
Romance
78 minutes
1931
King Vidor
Feature Productions,
Samuel Goldwyn Productions,
United Artists
1932
6.9
1932
7.5
1928
7.0
1929
6.1
1975
7.8
1957
7.6
1931
7.1
1932
5.0
1976
7.0
1984
6.3
1997
7.3
2002
6.4
2005
6.8
2004
6.3
2007
6.7
2002
5.9
1997
6.1
2002
6.1
1971
4.9
1931
5.5