Street Scene 1931
Directed by King Vidor | Starring: Sylvia Sidney, David Landau, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
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.