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Street Scene (1931)

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Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

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Greta Granstedt ...
Mae Jones (as Greta Grandstedt)
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Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
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In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. When the rude Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is sexually harassed by her boss Mr. Bert Easter; however, she likes her Jewish neighbor Sam 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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Drama | Romance

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5 September 1931 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Der Engel der Strasse  »

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$584,000 (estimated)
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(Western Electric Sound System)

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1.37 : 1
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Film debut of Beulah Bondi. See more »

Quotes

Emma Jones: The trouble with a bath is by the time you're through you're just as hot!
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Version of Street Scene (1979) See more »

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"Frühlingslied (Spring Song), Op. 62, No. 6"
(1842) (uncredited)
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Hummed by Estelle Taylor
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A wonderful antique
16 June 2003 | by (western Massachusetts) – See all my reviews

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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