No Trees in the Street
No Trees in the Street
Release: 1959-03-03
·Runtime: 96m
·★ 5.8
Drama
Crime
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Allegro Film
Associated British Picture Corporation
Cast
Herbert Lom
as Wilkie
Ronald Howard
as Frank
Sylvia Syms
as Hetty
Stanley Holloway
as Kipper
Marianne Stone
as Mrs Jokel
Rita Webb
as Mrs Brown
Melvyn Hayes
as Tommy
Lana Morris
as Marge
Liam Redmond
as Bill
David Hemmings
as Kenny
Edwin Richfield
as Jackie
Lloyd Lamble
as Police Superintendent
Fred Griffiths
as Street Orator
Joan Miller
as Jess
Carole Lesley
as Lova
Campbell Singer
as Inspector
Victor Brooks
as Bookie's Clerk
