The Street depicts one fateful 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 murder-robbery. Film historian Georges Sadoul writes in his Dictionary of Films, “The story of The Street takes place entirely in one night and is told without titles. Almost totally shot in studio sets, its style suggests the influence of Carl Mayer and Kammerspiel more than that of expressionism. Karl Grune was a former pupil of Max Reinhardt and his characters are typified by gestures, dress and symbols. The Street is undoubtedly a source of La Chienne, which Renoir made eight years later with a comparable theme but in a quite different style.”