No Trees in the Street (1958)
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In direct contrast to his later lush-budgeted international epics, director J. Lee Thompson turns his lenses towards the London slums in the sincere but saccharine No Trees in the Street. 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, (more)
- Director(s):
- J. Lee Thompson
Synopsis of No Trees in the Street
In direct contrast to his later lush-budgeted international epics, director J. Lee Thompson turns his lenses towards the London slums in the sincere but saccharine No Trees in the Street. 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of No Trees in the Street
- Sylvia Syms - Hetty
- Ronald Howard - Frank
- Joan Miller - Jess
- Liam Redmond - Bill
- Lana Morris - Marje
- Marianne Stone - Mrs. Jokel
- Campbell Singer - Inspector
- David Hemmings - Kenny
- Rita Webb - Mrs. Brown
- Victor Brooks - Bookie's Clerk
- Herbert Lom - Wilkie
- Stanley Holloway - Kipper
- Melvyn Hayes - Tommy
- Carole Lesley - Lova
- Lily Kann - Mrs. Jacobson
- Edwin Richfield - Jackie
- Lloyd Lamble - Superintendent
- Richard Shaw - Reg
- Fred Griffiths - Street Orator
- Director(s):
- J. Lee Thompson
- Writer(s):
- Ted Willis
- Producer(s):
- Frank Godwin
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