King Vidor Collection - 3-DVD Box Set ( Street Scene / Bird of Paradise / Our Daily Bread )

King Vidor Collection - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Street Scene / Bird of Paradise / Our Daily Bread
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
307 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1931 - 1934 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
King Vidor

Written By:
Elmer Rice
Richard Walton Tully
Wells Root
King Vidor
Elizabeth Hill

Actors:
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
Allen Fox ..... Dick McGann
Nora Cecil ..... Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Margaret Robertson ..... Minor Role
Walter James ..... Police Marshal James Henry
Max Montor ..... Abe Kaplan
Walter Miller ..... Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
Dolores del Rio ..... Luana
Joel McCrea ..... Johnny Baker
John Halliday ..... Mac
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher ..... Chester
Bert Roach ..... Hector
Lon Chaney Jr. ..... Thornton
Wade Boteler ..... Skipper Johnson
Arnold Gray ..... Walker
Reginald Simpson ..... O'Fallon
Napoleon Pukui ..... The King
Agostino Borgato ..... Medicine Man
Sofia Ortega ..... Mahumahu
Karen Morley ..... Mary Sims
Tom Keene ..... John Sims
John Qualen ..... Chris
Barbara Pepper ..... Sally
Addison Richards ..... Louie
Lloyd Ingraham ..... Uncle Anthony
Sidney Bracey ..... Rent Collector
Henry Hall ..... Frank - the Carpenter
Nellie V. Nichols ..... Mrs. Cohen
Frank Minor ..... Plumber
Bud Ray ..... Stonemason
Harry Brown ..... Little Man

Synopsis:

Street Scene (1931)
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Bird of Paradise (1932)
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Our Daily Bread (1934)
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!

Street Scene (1931)
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.
Bird of Paradise (1932)
A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers that the local custom is to sacrifice a young woman to the volcanic gods. They try to escape but realize that "east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet."
Our Daily Bread (1934)
John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

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