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No Trees in the Street (1959)

No Trees in the Street (1959)

Drama Crime

Kennedy Street: Where a girl learned about life - the hard way!

Release Date: 1959, March 3
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Allegro Film, Associated British Picture Corporation
Cast: Edwin Richfield, David Hemmings, Victor Brooks, Herbert Lom, Liam Redmond, Marianne Stone, Lloyd Lamble, Richard Shaw, Rita Webb, Stanley Holloway, Sylvia Syms, Fred Griffiths

Overview:

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.