The Street depicts one night in the life of a middle-aged, middle-class man who, waking from a nap, suddenly finds the monotony of his existence intolerable. Leaving his wife just as she is about to serve dinner, he heads out for the street. Initial exhilaration leads him to a prostitute, who leads him to a bar where her cohorts make him the patsy in a crime. Almost totally shot in studio sets, and telling its story without intertitles, The Street owes more to Kammerspiel than to expressionism. Karl Grune, a former pupil of Max Reinhardt, draws on gestures, dress, and symbols.