Street Scene (1931) Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor | Movie, Subtitles
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- Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Director: King Vidor
Writer: Elmer Rice
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Genres: Classics, Drama, Romance, Pre Code
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This movie is timeless. King Vidor had a great cast to work with and he got the most out of them. It seems that human nature doesn't change.
@andyzulim9792 "This movie is timeless."
Fake compliment alert! No movie is timeless.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Amazing that this was done at the dawn of the Sound Era. It's light years ahead of other 1931 films in terms of sound, score, cinematography, acting. Samuel Goldwyn was a visionary producer.
This is definitely a masterpiece of the precode era. The directing & acting stands out, with Sylvia Sidney delivering one of her best performances.
The music by Alfred Newman! Great stuff
You are so correct. The movie is the best of the best.
@@patricias5122 Yes, the opening theme is "Street Scene" by Alfred Newman same as title of movie. I have the sheet music and love it. Sylvia Sidney is a favorite of mine. Love her early 1930s performances.
Agreed! It sure is a masterpiece.
I grew up
In Jersey City 1960’s - 1970’s and boy we used to do the same things. All the kids on the block yelling to their parents in houses and apartments. Threw the money out the same way lol. Geez those summers could be brutal!! Great movie great actors!
To: @madtwc4425... And no a/c!
I lived thru it, too.
This film is a cinematic masterpiece. The scene where Rose's father tells her that she was always a good girl was beautiful. The panoramic shots going outwards as she walks to the subway - pure art.
This movie was made nearly a century ago but human nature is still the same...damn! Great cast, great story and seems like the best movies of that era was the pre-code movies when movies depicted life in the raw.
I agree. The pre-code movies are honest.
I'm almost as old as the movie, hard to believe. I had forgotten about this one, still great in 2021... 🤗
I’ve maintained for many years that I was born in wrong era. My mom, 1915 , on a central PA farm, hit it almost perfect. My perfect would have been 1890’s and out by 1980’s.
@@petegregory517 My mom was born in 1928, what I like about those days was the simplicity of life then, the movie was staged for-sure but life is the absolute shits in 2021... 🤮
@@BubbafromSapperton I'm happy to live in a time when tuberculosis is not rampant, thanks. At least not in American cities. Yet.
Street Scene was made when the cinema was truly an Art. Everything about this picture was marvelous.
Agree 100%...... Outstanding cinema and the script/setting accurately reflects societal issues that affected everyone. To be completely honest, I had planned on surfing after 1-2 minutes, but could not pull myself away until I watched its entirety. This type of cinema is truly a lost art in today's world sadly.
@@sonoranrain2330 it's not gone or lost jusr gotta steady be looking for the good stuff
A real yet tragic tale! Many lessons could be learned by this movie, but people seem to not really change. 90 years later neighbors still gossip without knowing the harm it does! At the same time that little bit of love is all it may take for this type of thing not to happen. If you listened to the Wife, all she wanted was someone to talk to! That does not sound like much, but it can be the difference between life and death. Gossip and meanness are easier than kindness or at least knowing the facts! A bit kindness is not really that difficult to emote as is nastiness and assuming the worst of another human. If you do not the truth shut up!!!
Thanks for what you said.
I couldn't agree with you more!
Well said 👋✝️🇮🇪
To: @robertocampano2089... Takes place in a Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen. It was a rough neighborhood back then.
What strikes me is how quickly the industry switched gears completely: they were already figuring out talkies pretty well. So completely different from the silents of the '20s! But it's also got a distinctly different vibe to it from most '30s dramas - it really feels like a filmed play. Love the _look_ of this flick. Music is great, too; but they shut it right up for the dialog.
Good point.... I've often wondered about that also.... They did make a really fast, yet smooth transition from silent films into talkies. But then look at how fast technology is evolving today......
@@sonoranrain2330 Yeah, you get swarms of people working at the cutting edge, and you're bound to find new paths forward, huh?
What's interesting about the switch to talkies is: A lot of Hollywood insiders thought of sound as a passing fad that the public would soon get tired of, and then they'd all carry on making silents!
This is pure cinema. I loved it from beginning till end.
This story was also the basis of a musical written by Kurt Weil. I performed in a production of it 30 years ago.
Oh, I wondered if there was a connection, thanks!
I saw a production at City Opera. It needs to be done more often. Great music, although Newman's score for the film is terrific, too.
This is a little masterpiece.
You know it. Politics, adultery, unhappy marriages, gossip, racism, poverty, socialism, classism, plutocracy, a unfair non-living wage for the majority, and a bigoted disdain for foreigners on American soil. You could reshoot this movie today, word for word, and it'd still be totally relevant.
Excellent! Perfect development of the characters, well acted ! What a gem !
I remember the ice man. Everyone have electric refrigerators . Ice delivery’s were on its last days. Ice man old timer. Sweet old man..
The more things change the more things stay the same it seems. We are still gossiping and arguing about the same things on the street. I like this movie because it reflects how things were back then and it's really not that different from today.
What a nice surprise to see great actors at the beginning of their careers! A young John Qualen (Grapes of Wrath) playing the Swede Karl Olsen!
I guess some of the innuendos the neighbors were making wouldn't have gotten past the draconian Hays code censors if this movie was made in 1934 and not 1931.
the pre code version has not survived, the post code edit perserved by the library of congress is 10 minutes longer than this version
Absolutely shocked how really good this movie is! Glad that I took a chance on this one!
A great movie! The sound was clear, the visuals were tight, and the story was real.
Beulah Bondi was an exquisite drab and Sylvia Sidney was fabulous.
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A very modern film despite its age. It is indeed a masterpiece.
Wow! This is amazingly well done. The acting is superb and the time period shown is on target.
Wow! For 1931, this film is pretty amazing. There's no Hollywood ending (even though I wanted the girl to end up with the boy), the dialogue is believable, the acting by Sylvia Sidney (who is absolutely gorgeous...up there with Gene Tierney) is so raw and real (and Beula Bondi did a great job in making me hate her and the other gossip mongers), the cinematography, a joint effort by George Barnes and the great Gregg Toland is outstanding, especially for the time. The story is done so well. You understand the emotions of both of Sylvia's parents. The director doesn't take a side.
Great movie. Thanks for showing it. Much appreciated.
Thanks, CCC! 😉 👍👍 👍👍 👍 Marvellous film. Its almost like an Shakespearean play.
I hadn't seen Sylvia Sidney in a long time, to be honest she was one of the greats I kind of forgot about over the years. Just recently I came across one of her movies I hadn't seen in many decades "Good Dame", it reminded me just how talented she was.
This was actually quite a good story, with wonderful acting, good camera angles, and inspired acting by many players. And the dialogue was good. What was very impressive were the crowd scenes on the street & some fine music. It was another time & maybe better. People got to know one another, knew each other's business, and they helped one another.
The beautiful young girl Sylvia Sydney is probably best remembered by younger audiences as the old woman in "Beetlejuice" who was in charge of the dispersion of the Dead (the football team) in her dark office. She's the one who tells the couple they have to go back & warns them about Beetlejuice.
Her performance in that late-career film was also wonderful, & memorable & a great well-cast appearance.
Her mother Anna who is suspected of being an adultress in this story is actress Estelle Taylor. She was married to Heavyweight Boxing Champion & legend Jack Dempsey (7 years).
The superintendent is a slender pipe-smoking man -- actor John Qualen -- who appeared in "Casablanca," and countless John Wayne films & most memorable in "The Searchers" & "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
The older nosy cantankerous & sarcastic woman is Beulah Bondi (only 43 years old here) in her first appearance in motion pictures. She went on to "It's a Wonderful World," "The Snake Pit," & John Wayne's "Back to Bataan" & some Alfred Hitchcock.
She was one of the first actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award in the new Best Supporting Actress category.
A great film, and story despite its age (1931). King Vidor really did a fine job.
Excellent movie! Thanks for posting!
This is great! Super cinetography too.
Brilliant, a play on film, drama on the front stoop of a NYC walkup during the Depression; numerous subplots but the main drama is the romances of a mother and daughter of an Irish family and the tragedy that ensues. Thanks @ccc
This movie is based on the 1929 Pulitzer Prize winning play "Street Scene" by Elmer Rice. Beulah Bondi was in the original production in the same role of Mrs. Jones.
Very good ...what a gem of a find 👍
15 minutes in and I love this movie! Thanks for posting it.
The same situations goes on more than ever today.
I don't know it anyone else mentioned this, but the entirety of this movie, including the crowd scenes and the el, was filmed on a set.
Not true, the opening scene was filmed in Midtown Manhattan and the El was the 9th Ave.El. I should know, I grew up in NYC.
Excuse my ignorance, what is the el?
@@elenahelen8958 El refers to the term elevated train line that runs above the streets of Chicago, Boston until 1987, NYC,
Philadelphia, There were 4 el lines in Manhattan that went to the Bronx , the 9th Ave El, 6th Ave, 3rd, 2nd Ave els were in Manhattan. I should know I am a New Yorker.
After having watched, listened to, read and thought about and looked at photo stills from classic movies of every variety, for around 45 years, i would venture to say that King Vidor is perhaps the most underrated film director and i luv Beulah Bondi within so many diverse roles. perhaps the most underrated actress.
Sylvia Sidney, who played Rose Maurrant, was Jewish. William Collier, Jr., who played Sam Kaplan, I do not believe was. Another little lesson in theater.
What a lost, ( & luckily found), little gem! Thank you! Sylvia Sydney cld only give great performances in both theatrical relessesl an teleplay performances. RIP.
Thank you for presenting this nice film! ;-)
Great performance by Sylvia Sidney as she slowly descends into Angst as the film develops. Perfect plotline for a stage play too.
Good Evening! I love it! Thank You!!!!!
I love this movie!🍿
This was a very good movie. I really liked all the storylines that were happening at the same time. I felt so sorry for that sweet young lady, Rose, at the end. This movie was probably so good because Samuel Goldwyn, later to be part owner of MGM studios, was involved in the production.
The only contribution that Goldwyn made to the movie industry was financial. Beginning with Mack Sennet, Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn,Otto Preminger, Samuel Goldwyn and Alfred Hitchcock, these studio head perverts used their power and influence to sexually assault aspiring actresses on what came to be known as the "casting couch". These perverts ruled their studios as despots run governments. If you were an aspiring actress and wanted to advance your career, you were expected to bed down the studio head on the casting couch.If you refused, you were summarily dismissed and put on a blacklist making it impossible to work in Hollywood ever again. They sexually assaulted the likes of Shirley Temple, (underage) Judy Garland,(underage) Tippi Hedren, Marilyn Monroe and countless other aspiring actresses. The "casting couch" has been around for decades and wasn't invented by Harvey Weinstein, although he took it to new levels. Thousands of hopeful starlets have been traumatized and had their dreams shattered and careers ruined because of these perverse megalomaniacs.
@@sonoranrain2330 You are correct about the casting couch and how lecherous producers and directors were toward young women.
Samuel Goldwyn was never part owner of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. He was squeezed out very early on.
@@alexvaliansky7707 True,but his influence cannot be overstated as he founded both Paramount and Goldwyn Studios where he perfected the casting couch.
@@sonoranrain2330 As I understand it, from what I’ve read on the subject, Goldwyn had little or nothing to do with founding Paramount Pictures. The linchpins at that studio were Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky.
The opening music was used for Kiss of Death starred Richard Widmark, and later in 1953 How to Marry a Millionare
starred Marilyn Monroe, Bette Grable and Lauren Bacall. Kiss of Death was in 1947. I just remembered Victor Mature
was the main star of Kiss of Death.
The name of the music in the opening is the same as the name of the movie. "Street Scene" by Alfred Newman. I have the piano sheet music and love it as well as the movie and Sylvia Sidney.
A classic! Excellent acting.
0 what a master piece. Wonderful script actors timing filming sound phew I give it 500 out of 100.? Tops
I have always felt that living surrounded by cement and bricks would be a life of hell. When Rose talked about going through the park and seeing everything green she lit up. Its unnatural to be so separated from nature everywhere you look. I think it could cause people to be caustic, sad, harsh and filled with longing. The gossip was done out of boredom...The saying..."If you can't say something nice...Don't say anything at all" is as truly a better way to live then as it would be now....It causes less trouble and hurt.
I loved this movie ❤️ Thanks a bunch! 👏🌟
Aww cute, Hearing the kids singing hi Ho the Dario The Farmer in the Dell hearing kids singing nursery rhymes! 👏 I'm 65 and was taught so mamy. I told my 2 nursery rhymes... but they're a thing of the past ❣️🧸🐣🍃🌺🍀🍧🍭
Great movie and Comments. Proves the hypothesis that "Reality is Duality" especially when it comes to the "Human Condition" ???
Very few movies from this period give you the sense that you are really looking back in time and seeing people in a real world environment. This is like nothing else.
The first of several classic King Vidor crowd shots at 59:38. Amazing how few shots stand out--the one below Beulah Bondi street level looking up at her looking up at a tenant is remarkable--until you get the close up of David Landau as the husband home returning early from Stamford. The series of rapid reaction shots and Newman's scored timed to each are fantastic. I too think this is a pre-code masterpiece. Amazing discipline in setting up the last 20 minutes of the film. Thanks for posting it. I hadn't known of the film before.
I should have said the climax of the film, not the end of it.
Cameraman George Barnes taught Gregg Toland all he knew, and went on to do Rebecca and other classics.
This movie like a lot of other good movies from that time of period is and always will be a pure cinema as Hitchcock would say.
The screen debut of the amazing Beulah Bondi.
Just watched this today, and i'm still surprised of how good it was, a great great movie and also very ahead of its time
I think air conditioners changed our culture! Good ol fashion gossiping on hot summer nights! I miss it! LOL
I think it was television 📺
Somebody should do a restoration if at all possible. A great movie.
Wonderful nugget of Americana!🇺🇸
Nuget is right on the nail.
Thank you for uploading this little GEM! I enjoyed it very much!! 🌹🌹🌹
City life before television, air conditioning or any number of things that keep people indoors now. It's gotten so you don't even know what your neighbor looks like.
Give me the old days.
this is fab. Thanks !
Sylvia Sidney is BRILLIANT!
This should be required watching for every generation.
brilliant.
What a surprising and lovely find this film was! Sometimes logarithms can be your friend! Wow, Sylvia Sydney was lovely. And what a figure. I’ve only ever seen her in later movies. Wasn’t she in Midnight Cowboy? It’s funny but in the 90 yrs since this movie was made people still quarrel over politics, religion, gossip, immigrants and different nationalities. The NYC melting pot. I was also an immigrant from scandinavia in 1969 and we lived in Queens, NY for awhile before we moved to Long Island and our nyc neighborhood was exactly like this.
She was not in Midnight Cowboy.
@@TheNoncritical1 Thanks! I just looked, Sylvia Miles.
Samuel Goldwyn was a major studio all by himself. He financed each of his films the same way; getting a bank loan with his home and possessions as collateral. He demanded the best from the people he hired, and usually got it. Look at the quality of those he got to make his films. And he made money to pay off the loan. A one-of-a-kind.
So funny how the doctor comes out and lights up a cigarette--like they are reallyhealthy for you lol. But that was what they did then.
El director es King vidor gracias por la pelicula adios desde España
sylvia sidney , was so cute and her dresses were as well . brother willie , needed his butt kicked . this is the youngest i can recall , seeing bulah bondi in a film . the tenament building holds an interesting group of people . i really enjoyed this movie , tragic as it is . thank you , for sharing.......
LOL..remember my family talked about hot spells then, 1st places to get air conditioning were the theatres-
Funny you should say that. One time I was in NY in July and the heat was unbearable. I thought where could I get respite from this?
A great film, too true to life, not a wasted breath or line. We used to watch this on TV, channel 5, back in the 1950s. 93 years after it was made, it's still relevant and real. Thank you. 🐸
Director King Vidor:
Amable y en paz con el alma y la forma de ser de las madres y el resto de mujeres.
Eran los año 31 dek siglo XX.
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Great movie
About 17.11 the neighbors sound as if they can be transported to today and fit right in.
el rescate de una buena pelicula y magnificos actores .
This would be much better as "live theater/a play".
Back then they didn’t have zoom lenses so all the camera moves if it appears to be a zoom it’s not, it’s a dolly move. It would make a great play.
Brilliant, thanks ♥️♥️
Great film, thank you.
Magnífica película 👏👏👏. Dios nos libre de tener una vecina así 😁🙏
They sunny make heartfelt movies anymore like this with substance and what life is all about
IMAGINE IF THEY HAD THE INTERNET BACK THEN....
Wow the drama the gossips🤦🤦😜😝🤣🤣
El drama llega a esta película.... de golpe y sin avisar....
junio 2021
MilflorsXVIII
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Sylvia Sidney also played in the movie Beetleguise. She played the roll of the office mgr the Maitlands had to deal with after they died. What a difference.
My brother on Roller Skates...what a pain....
This movie may be made long time ago but the concept prevailing in our human society remain same.
That thumbnail of those 2 guys undressing her with their eyes is Uber creepy. Looks like a good flick!
Very interesting film, I’m glad I watched it. Nice time capsule..😎
Great movie! Gem for sure.
Yeap, had to be home when the strreet lights came on...😊
Emotional and happiness.
King Vidor a great director! Sylvia Sydney great as ROSE. ACTOR AND ACTRESS PORTRAYED ROSES MOTHER AND FATHER GREAT. BEAULAH BONDI ALSO GREAT AS MRS. JONES. Was hearing Alfred Newman score throughout picture. Haven't seen STREET SCENE(1931) IN YRS. Have a Readers Digest Collection about tge music from the movies. Johnny Gibbs did Alfred Newman scores throughout career very close to his style did not change them!!!
This film wouldn't fly today. Very politically incorrect. I like when the lady said to the guy, "Don't be coming home lit", referring to him being drunk 🤣
Shocking, great!
The surviving print, preserved by the Library of Congress, and occasionally shown on TCM, is the post-Production Code re-release (bearing the re-release Seal of Approval), but since it runs exactly 1:28:40, apparently little alteration was made from the original, whose 1931 New York City opening was clocked at 80 minutes. However, on a couple of occasions, lines of dialogue have been obviously edited out that evidently failed to pass post-code regulations.
The original release "Mata Hari" (12932) does not exist anymore, even in the MGM archives. Only the late 1930's reissue which is quite shorter - 10-15 minutes,
Good Movie👍🏼
Before it's time.......EPIC❤
Alfred Newman's theme music for this film was used over and over in movies for more than 20 years, including a full symphonic orchestra prelude to, for some strange reason, "How to Marry a Millionaire" in 1953.
Cool fact. Was he paid each time?
@@lovemesomeslippers Yes, but a lot of these films were made by 20th Century Fox, where he was musical director, so it probably was part of his compensation.
@@DMBall Here's the reason I read. When Alfred Newman was hired by Darryl F. Zanuck to head Fox's music department, Zanuck confessed that he loved Newman's "Street Scene" music. He urged Newman to use the score whenever Fox made a movie with a New York theme. So, every time you get a chance to see "Gentleman's Agreememt" or "Kiss of Death," you'll hear "Street Scene." As far as why Newman conducted a Gershwin-esque version of the music to open "How to Marry a Millionaire," there was a reason. The film was an early CinemaScope film when Fox introduced the wide screen process. Not only did Zanuck love the music, but he was also trying to show other studios the value of not only CinemaScope but 6-channel stereophonic sound. Fox owned a trade-mark to CinemaScope, but the studio rented the process to MGM, Warners, Columbia, Universal, United Artists, Universal and Allied Artists for $25,000 per film.
weird ending
Notice the animal cruelty at the beggining, a skinny hourse with heavy saddle on used a horse pulling, then that dog dehydrating so much its laying there with its tounge sticking out rapidly panting.
LOL! Too bad they couldn't send the sun to jail.