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No Trees in the Street (1959)
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Overview
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes’ own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes’ sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Rated NR | Length 96 minutes
Actors
Sylvia Syms | Herbert Lom | Melvyn Hayes | Ronald Howard | Stanley Holloway | Joan Miller | Carole Lesley | Lana Morris | Liam Redmond | Lily Kann | Marianne Stone | David Hemmings | Edwin Richfield | Campbell Singer | Lloyd Lamble | Richard Shaw | Rita Webb | Fred Griffiths | Victor Brooks | Billy Lawrence