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.

• Feature Productions
• Samuel Goldwyn Productions
• Sylvia Sidney
• William Collier Jr.
• Estelle Taylor
• Beulah Bondi
• David Landau
• Matt McHugh
• Russell Hopton
• Greta Granstedt