No Trees in the Street

Plot

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

Cast

• Sylvia Syms - Hetty
• Herbert Lom - Wilkie
• Ronald Howard - Frank
• Stanley Holloway - Kipper
• Joan Miller - Jess

Melvyn Hayes - Tommy; Liam Redmond - Bill; Carole Lesley - Lova; Lana Morris - Marje; Lily Kann - Mrs. Jacobson; Marianne Stone - Mrs. Jokel; Edwin Richfield - Jackie; Campbell Singer - Inspector; Lloyd Lamble - Superintendent; David Hemmings - Kenny; Richard Shaw - Reg; Rita Webb - Mrs. Brown; Fred Griffiths - Street Orator; Victor Brooks - Bookie's Clerk

Credit

Robert Jones - Art Director, J. Lee Thompson - Director, Richard Best - Editor, Laurie Johnson - Composer (Music Score), Gilbert Taylor - Cinematographer, Frank Godwin - Producer, Ted Willis - Screenwriter, Ted Willis - Play Author

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