Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this 1931 King Vidor adaptation features Sylvia Sidney in her first starring role as one of the residents of a NYC brownstone who sit on the stoop and swap gossip in the heat of a couple of sweltering July days and nights. The scandal (literally a case of the wife and the milkman) is less interesting than the backbiting repartee between the walk-up's colorful inhabitants. While Image has done a good job with a less than optimum print, this early soaper is recommended primarily for film studies collections and is optional elsewhere. (R. Pitman)
Street Scene
Image, 79 min., not rated, $24.99 Vol. 15, Issue 6
Street Scene
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