No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

96 mins | Drama, Crime | Jan. 1, 1959

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.

No Trees in the Street

96 mins | Drama, Crime | Jan. 1, 1959

No Trees in the Street
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Allegro Film, Associated British Picture Corporation
Original title No Trees in the Street
Directors Ross MacKenzie, J. Lee Thompson
Writers Ted Willis

Cast

Sylvia Syms

as Hetty

Herbert Lom

as Wilkie

Melvyn Hayes

as Tommy

Ronald Howard

as Frank

Stanley Holloway

as Kipper

Joan Miller

as Jess

Carole Lesley

as Lova

Lana Morris

as Marge

Liam Redmond

as Bill

Lily Kann

as Mrs Sarah Jacobson

Marianne Stone

as Mrs Jokel

David Hemmings

as Kenny

Edwin Richfield

as Jackie

Campbell Singer

as Inspector

Lloyd Lamble

as Police Superintendent

Richard Shaw

as Reg

Rita Webb

as Mrs Brown

Fred Griffiths

as Street Orator

Victor Brooks

as Bookie's Clerk