Street Scene

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Street Scene

1931,

1h 20m,

Drama

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89%

9 Reviews

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71%

100+ Ratings

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9 Reviews

71%

Popcornmeter

100+ Ratings

Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this slice-of-life tale captures one day on a residential Manhattan street. Brownstone neighbors gather on a sweltering summer evening to swap the latest gossip about the philandering Mrs. Maurrant and her alcoholic husband. The Maurrants' daughter, Rose, who longs to escape her seedy existence, must deal with her parents' sins when her father learns of his wife's infidelity.

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Sep 21, 2020

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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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jul 22, 2024

4/4

One of the best of the early talkies.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Sur

Dec 15, 2021

Street Scene, adapted from the comedy of the same name by the expressionist Elmer Rice, is inspired by the simple, negative desire not to look "standard."

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Ralph Bond

Close Up

Jan 20, 2021

Street Scene proves the tremendous possibilities of sound and music wedded intelligently to the pictorial image.

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

May 24, 2015

A theatrical snapshot that's also a heaving Vidor vision

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 19, 2005

3/5

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Luke G

Sep 6, 2018

Wearing its heart on its sleeve, this slice-of-life (whose message is the question "why can't we all just get along?"), set in front of a New York apartment building in a poor neighborhood, is about social justice and hangs it's coat on one family where the husband both ignores his wife and derides her. The production shoots for the stars and aims for the heart, though the effort hasn't aged well. Still, its a quality effort. Bealah Bondi, trusty character actress, carries the thing as the well-meaning neighbor you love to hate.

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Finn L

Mar 8, 2017

A slice of life urban love letter, as only King Vidor could film.

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Rose Maurrant

William Collier Sr.

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Estelle Taylor

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Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this slice-of-life tale captures one day on a residential Manhattan street. Brownstone neighbors gather on a sweltering summer evening to swap the latest gossip about the philandering Mrs. Maurrant and her alcoholic husband. The Maurrants' daughter, Rose, who longs to escape her seedy existence, must deal with her parents' sins when her father learns of his wife's infidelity.

Director: King Vidor
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Production Co: Feature Productions, Samuel Goldwyn Company
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 26, 1931, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 14, 2019
Runtime: 1h 20m

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