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
Sam Kaplan
Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Emma Jones
Mr. Frank Maurrant
Vincent Jones
Steve Sankey
Mae Jones
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Minor Role
Police Marshal James Henry
Abe Kaplan
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
George Jones
Danny Buchanan
Shirley Kaplan
Olga Olsen
Willie Maurrant
Filippo Fiorentino
Laura Hildebrand
Officer Harry Murphy
Minor Role
Minor Role (as Monti Carter)
Fred Cullen
