公寓街景

In the sweltering heat of a New York summer afternoon back in 1931, nosy neighbor Emma Jones spills the tea with the building's gossips about Anna Maurrant's steamy affair with milkman Steve Sankey. The chatter dies fast when her hot-tempered husband, Frank Maurrant, stomps in—they switch topics quick. Upstairs, their teen daughter Rose fends off advances from her sleazy married boss Bert Easter, while nursing a soft spot for sweet Jewish neighbor Sam, who's head over heels for her. Come morning, Frank claims he's off to Stamford for work, but he doubles back and catches Anna with Sankey in their apartment. Gunfire erupts—Frank shoots Sankey dead and mortally wounds his wife in a frantic struggle. Cops haul him away as he begs forgiveness from Rose, now left to fend for herself and little brother without parents. Rose turns down Easter's creepy offer of her own place, spots Sam, and declares she's ditching the city. He begs to tag along, but she insists they need time apart before thinking coupledom. She strides off alone down the Bronx street in this gritty King Vidor adaptation of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer-winning play Street Scene, starring Sylvia Sidney as the resilient R