Specialty CollectionGenre: FEATURE FILMS
Description: DRAMA SYLVIA SIDNEY, WILLIAM COLLIER, ESTELLE TAYLOR, BEULAH BONDI, MAX MONTOR, DAVID LANDAU, MATT MCHUGH, RUSSELL HOPTON, GRETA GRANDSTEDT, TOM H. MANNING, ADELE WATSON, JOHN QUALEN, ANNA KONSTANT, GEORGE HUMBERT, ALLAN FOX, ELEANOR WESSELHOEFT, NORA CECIL, LOUIS NATHEAUX, LAMBERT ROGERS, VIRGINIA DAVIS, HELEN LOVETT, KENNETH SELLING, CONWAY WASHBURNE, HOWARD RUSSELL, RICHARD POWELL, WALTER JAMES, HARRY WALLACE, MONTI CARTER, JANE MERCER, MARGARET ROBERTSON, WALTER MILLER. ELMER RICE'S PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAY ABOUT THE LIVES & LOVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON ONE WEST SIDE MANHATTAN STREET. DIRECTED BY KING VIDOR. IT'S SUMMER & THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN. THE PEOPLE CAN'T BEAR TO STAY IN THEIR STIFLING APARTMENTS SO THE ACTION TAKES PLACE OUTSIDE. A LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN MATURE WOMAN TAYLOR AND HOPTON, A MAN WHO COLLECTS FOR THE MILK COMPANY. TAYLOR'S HUSBAND MAY BE THE ONLY PERSON ON THE STREET WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT HE HAS HIS OWN THEORY AND IS JUST WAITING TO CATCH THEM. THE SUN RISES AND TAYLOR'S DAUGHTER IS OFF TO WORK. LANDEAU HAS TO TRAVEL TO CONNECTICUT FOR THE DAY (OR SO HE SAYS). HE SEES HOPTON SURREPTITIOUSLY MAKE HIS WAY TO TAYLOR'S FLAT. THE SHADE COMES DOWN. SCREAMS ARE HEARD, NOISES OF A FIGHT, THEN A SINGLE SHOT RINGS OUT. THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET TURN THEIR EYES TO THE SOUND, THE SHADE COMES UP, AND HOPTON STANDS AT THE WINDOW. THEN THERE'S ANOTHER SHOT & HOPTON DISAPPEARS. PEOPLE LOOK UP WITH LOOKS OF IMPENDING DOOM, SOMETHING IS COMING. SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. MAN COMES RUNNING OUT OF THE BROWNSTONE WITH A GUN IN HIS HAND. HE HAS THE LOOK OF A CRAZED MAN AND THE STREET PEOPLE SHRINK BACK WHEN HE TELLS THEM TO SCATTER. TURNS THE CORNER AND DISAPPERS DOWN AN ALLEY AS POLICE CARS AND AMBULANCES RUSH INTO THE STREET. A CROWD GATHERS TO SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT. TAYLOR BROUGHT OUT ON STRETCHER BY ANBULANCE ATTENDANTS. SHE'S DEAD AND SO IS THE MAN. TAKES THE BEREAVED DAUGHTER IN HER ARMS AND TRIES TO EASE THE PAIN. OFFICER ENTERS WITH LANDEAU WHO BEGS FOR FORGIVNESS. SAYS HE HAD BEEN DRINKING AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING. THE STREEET BEGINS TO CROWDS WITH THE CURIOUS, THE SCANAL-LOVERS, THE PRESS, THE FLOTSAM WHO LOVE TO BE WHERE DEATH IS. LOVERS BREAK UP.
