Storyline

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.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords

mother, father, daughter, neighbor, student, bleak, gritty, new york city, poverty, adultery, aspirations, gossip, fall, revenge, transformation, 1930s

Short Review

With the cinematographer George Barnes, Vidor-keeping the stagelike setting outside the apartment building-sends the camera plunging frenetically into the fray and conjures the city's architectural space with deep-focus images.

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