...One Third of a Nation... (1939)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Sylvia Sidney	...	Mary Rogers (as Sylvia Sydney)
	Leif Erickson	...	Peter Cortlant (as Leif Erikson)
	Myron McCormick	...	Sam Moon
	Hiram Sherman	...	Donald Hinchley
	Sidney Lumet	...	Joey Rogers
	Muriel Hutchison	...	Ethel Cortlant
	Percy Waram	...	Arthur Mather
	Otto Hulett	...	Assistant District Attorney (as Otto Hulitt)
	Horace Sinclair	...	John - Butler
	Iris Adrian	...	Myrtle
	Charles Dingle	...	Mr. Rogers
	Edmonia Nolley	...	Mrs. Rogers
	Hugh Cameron	...	Mr. Cassidy
	Julia Fassett	...	Mrs. Cassidy
	Baruch Lumet	...	Mr. Rosen

Storyline

A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family. Only later does Peter learn that the firetrap tenement is one of his own vast real estate holdings. Faced with his own unwitting complicity in the deaths and injuries resultant from the fire and with his growing attachment to Mary, Peter decides to tear down his tenements and erect decent affordable housing. But his family is aghast at his plan and plots to wreck it. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>  

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