No Trees in the Street

Name: No Trees in the Street
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1959-03-03
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Melvyn Hayes, Ronald Howard, Stanley Holloway

“Kennedy Street: Where a girl learned about life - the hard way!”

1959

1h 36m

Drama Crime

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Writer: Ted Willis

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.