Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: VCI9107
- Format: Blu-Ray/DVD
- UPC: 089859910722
- Street Date: 07/09/24
- PreBook Date: 06/04/24
- Label: VCI Entertainment »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 80 mins
- Number of Discs: 2
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1931
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Sylvia Sidney
- William Collier Jr.
- Estelle Taylor
- Beulah Bondi
- David Landau
- Matt McHugh
- Russell Hopton
- Greta Granstedt
- Eleanor Wesselhoeft
- Nora Cecil
- Margaret Robertson
- Walter James
- Max Montor
- Walter Miller
- T.H. Manning
- Conway Washburne
- John Qualen
- Ann Kostant
- Adele Watson
- Lambert Rogers
- George Humbert
- Helen Lovett
- Richard Powell
- Jane Mercer
- Monte Carter
- Harry Wallace
- Director: King Vidor
Product Assets
Street Scene (4k Restoration)
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
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One of the great stage-to-screen adaptations of the early sound film era, STREET SCENE (1931) presents a New York City tenement melting pot, boiling over with summer heat, resentment, and longing. Independent producer Samuel Goldwyn acquired the rights of the Pulitzer Prize winning and hit Broadway play by Elmer Rice, who also penned the screenplay.
Under the direction of King Vidor, the relatively simple set (building, sidewalk, street) becomes a canvas of human emotion, achieved through dynamic camerawork and powerhouse performances by Sylvia Sidney, Estelle Taylor, and Beulah Bondi--a member of the original Broadway cast who made her film debut as the busybody Mrs. Jones. Composer Alfred Newman's score offers musical cues carefully timed to character dialogue, along with a Gershwin-esque theme that Newman reused during his long career at 20th Century-Fox. The film's restoration allows us to fully experience the power of STREET SCENE, seeing and hearing in vivid clarity as Anna Maurrant (Taylor), her daughter Rose (Sidney), and neighbor Sam Kaplan (William Collier, Jr.) open their hearts and crash against the limitations of their environment.
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Sales Points
- In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.
- Features a screenplay by Elmer Rice adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.
- Street Scene is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor (The Big Parade).
- The music score is by Alfred Newman, his first complete film score. Newman composed the eponymous title theme, in the style of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
- The film stars Estelle Taylor, David Landau, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., and Beulah Bondi (her screen debut).
Press Quotes
There's a timeless quality to the work that makes it a cultural touchstone, the movie anyone making a New York City period piece today consults and references when recreating the 'street scenes' of a 'Godfather' or 'Do the Right Thing'.
—Roger Moore, Movie Nation
