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