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… More 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
- Directed By
- J. Lee Thompson
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 3, 1959 Wide
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Cast
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Sylvia Syms
as Hetty
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Herbert Lom
as Wilkie
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Ronald Howard
as Frank
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Stanley Holloway
as Kipper
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Joan Miller
as Jess
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Melvyn Hayes
as Tommy
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Liam Redmond
as Bill
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Carole Lesley
as Lova
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Lana Morris
as Marje
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Lily Kann
as Mrs. Jacobson
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Marianne Stone
as Mrs. Jokel
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Edwin Richfield
as Jackie
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Campbell Singer
as Inspector
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Lloyd Lamble
as Superintendent
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David Hemmings
as Kenny
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Richard Shaw
as Reg
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Rita Webb
as Mrs. Brown
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Fred Griffiths
as Street Orator
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Victor Brooks
as Bookie's Clerk
