One Third of a Nation

• Director: Dudley Murphy
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Main Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Myron McCormick, Sidney Lumet
• Release Year: 1939
• Country: US
• Run Time: 79 minutes

Plot

Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the Depression era which shows the disparity between life in the slums and the life of the upper class. When a young man inherits a city block in the ghetto, he begins to meet those who live there. One, a young boy, had been crippled in a fire which ripped through his tenement. He meets and falls in love with this young boy's sister as well. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Sylvia Sidney - Mary Rogers
• Myron McCormick - Sam Moon
• Sidney Lumet - Joey Rogers

Percy Waram - Arthur Mather; Horace Sinclair - John, butler; Iris Adrian - Myrtle; Charles Dingle - Mr. Rogers; Edmonia Nolley - Mrs. Rogers; Hugh Cameron - Mr. Cassidy; Julia Fassett - Mrs. Cassidy; Baruch Lumet - Mr. Rosen; Byron Russell - Inspector Castle; Robert George - Building Inspector; Miriam Goldina - Mrs. Cohen; Leif Erickson - Peter Cortlant; Otto Hulett - Assistant District Attorney; Muriel Hutchinson - Ethel Corliant; Hiram Sherman - Donald Hinchley

Credit

Dudley Murphy - Director, Duncan Mansfield - Editor, Nathaniel Shilkret - Composer (Music Score), Edward Hyland - Cinematographer, William J. Miller - Cinematographer, Dudley Murphy - Producer, Oliver H.P. Garrett - Screenwriter, Dudley Murphy - Screenwriter, Arthur Arent - Play Author

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