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Street Scene (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1931 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
King Vidor

Written By:
Elmer Rice

Actors:
Walter Miller ..... Mr. Bert Easter (Rose's boss)
Sylvia Sidney ..... Rose Maurrant
William Collier Jr. ..... Sam Kaplan
Estelle Taylor ..... Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Beulah Bondi ..... Emma Jones
David Landau ..... Mr. Frank Maurrant
Matt McHugh ..... Vincent Jones
Russell Hopton ..... Steve Sankey
Greta Granstedt ..... Mae Jones
Eleanor Wesselhoeft ..... Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
Allan Fox ..... Dick McGann
Nora Cecil ..... Alice Simpson (welfare worker)
Margaret Robertson ..... Marshal James Henry
Walter James ..... Abe Kaplan
Max Montor

Synopsis:

Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene was purchased for the screen by producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1931. The entire story takes place on the street in front of a foreboding old New York brownstone, between one evening and the next afternoon. The individual fates of eight neighboring Manhattan families intertwine during this brief stretch of time. Special emphasis is given the Maurrant family: the philandering mother (Estelle Taylor), the drink-sodden husband (David Landau) and long-suffering daughter Rose (Sylvia Sidney). When the husband catches the wife "in the act" with bill-collector Russell Hopton, the resulting tragedy is not shown, but reflecting in the wildly varying reactions of neighbors and passersby. Though resisting the temptation to "open up" the play, director King Vidor nonetheless injects his cinematic know-how into the proceedings, by utilizing an entirely different camera setup or angle for each individual "take." The cast of Street Scene includes several carry-overs from the Broadway original, including David Landau, Max Montor, Matt McHugh (brother of Frank), John Qualen, George Humbert, Tom H. Manning, and Anna Konstant (Sidebar: Shirley Kaplan, the role played by Ms. Konstant, was portrayed in the London production of Street Scene by Greer Garson). Unavailable for TV for many years due to legal tangles, Street Scene was freed up for the small screen when it lapsed into public domain in the early 1980s.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 June, 2011.

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