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Street Scene (film)

Street Scene
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Directed by King Vidor
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn
Written by Elmer Rice
Starring Estelle Taylor
David Landau
Sylvia Sidney
William Collier, Jr.
Beulah Bondi
Music by Alfred Newman
Cinematography George Barnes
Gregg Toland
Edited by Hugh Bennett
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • August 26, 1931 (1931-08-26) (New York City)
  • September 5, 1931 (1931-09-05) (U.S. wide)
Running time
80 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $584,000 (estimate)

Street Scene is a 1931 Pre-Code drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor. With a screenplay by Elmer Rice adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Street Scene takes place on a New York City street from one evening until the following afternoon. Except for one scene which takes place inside a taxi, Vidor shot the entire film on a single set depicting half a city block of house fronts.

The movie stars Estelle Taylor, David Landau, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., and Beulah Bondi (her screen debut). The music score is by Alfred Newman, his first complete film score. Newman composed the eponymous title theme, in the style of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The theme has been used in other movies, including Cry of the City, Kiss of Death, I Wake Up Screaming, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Dark Corner, Gentleman's Agreement and as the overture to How to Marry a Millionaire.

On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.


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