The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Rose Maurrant
Sylvia Sidney
Sam Kaplan
William Collier Jr.
Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Estelle Taylor
Emma Jones
Beulah Bondi
Mr. Frank Maurrant
David Landau
Vincent Jones
Matt McHugh
Steve Sankey
Russell Hopton
Mae Jones
Greta Granstedt
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
John Qualen
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
Allen Fox
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Nora Cecil
Minor Role
Margaret Robertson
Police Marshal James Henry
Walter James
Abe Kaplan
Max Montor
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
Walter Miller
George Jones
T.H. Manning
Danny Buchanan
Conway Washburne
Shirley Kaplan
Ann Kostant
Olga Olsen
Adele Watson
Willie Maurrant
Lambert Rogers
Filippo Fiorentino
George Humbert
Laura Hildebrand
Helen Lovett
Officer Harry Murphy
Richard Powell
Minor Role
Jane Mercer
Minor Role (as Monti Carter)
Monte Carter
Fred Cullen
Harry Wallace
Virginia Davis
Florence Enright
Marcia Mae Jones
Tiny Jones
Dorothy Vernon
Eric Mayne
Louis Natheaux
Buddy Roosevelt