No Trees in the Street (1959)
No Trees in the Street (1959)
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Sylvia Syms
Hetty
Melvyn Hayes
Tommy
Herbert Lom
Wilkie
Ronald Howard
Frank
Stanley Holloway
Kipper
J. Lee Thompson
Director
Carole Lesley
Lova
Ted Willis
Writer
Laurie Johnson
Composer
Lana Morris
Marge
Gilbert Taylor
Cinematographer
Liam Redmond
Bill
Richard Best
Editor
Lily Kann
Mrs Sarah Jacobson
Marianne Stone
Mrs Jokel
Joan Miller
Jess
David Hemmings
Kenny
Edwin Richfield
Jackie
Campbell Singer
Inspector
Lloyd Lamble
Police Superintendent
Richard Shaw
Reg
Rita Webb
Mrs Brown
Fred Griffiths
Street Orator
Victor Brooks
Bookie's Clerk
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No Trees in the Street is a 1959 British crime thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom and Melvyn Hayes. It was written by Ted Willis, from his 1948 stage play of the same name.The film is set in the slums of London, and depicts the life of impoverished teenager Tommy, who becomes a criminal in an attempt at social mobility.
It is an example of British kitchen sink realism, but is mainly noted for its naturalistic depiction of slum life.