No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street (1959)

DramaCrime

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.

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Casts

	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
	Billy Lawrence as Minor Role (uncredited)

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