One Third Of A Nation (1939)

• Director
  • Dudley Murphy
• Writers
  • Oliver H.P. Garrett(screenplay by)
  • Arthur Arent(from the play by)
  • Dudley Murphy(adaptation by)
• Stars
  • Sylvia Sidney
  • Leif Erickson
  • Myron McCormick

  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.