No Trees in the Street (1959)
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.
Cast
Sylvia Syms
Hetty
Herbert Lom
Wilkie
Melvyn Hayes
Tommy
Ronald Howard
Frank
Stanley Holloway
Kipper
Joan Miller
Jess
Carole Lesley
Lova
Lana Morris
Marge
Liam Redmond
Bill
Marianne Stone
Mrs Jokel
David Hemmings
Kenny
Edwin Richfield
Jackie
Campbell Singer
Inspector
Lloyd Lamble
Police Superintendent
Rita Webb
Mrs Brown
Fred Griffiths
Street Orator
Victor Brooks
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