No Trees in the Street
1959Based 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.
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Sylvia Syms
as Hetty
Herbert Lom
as Wilkie
Melvyn Hayes
as Tommy
Ronald Howard
as Frank
Stanley Holloway
as Kipper
Joan Miller
as Jess
Carole Lesley
as Lova
Lana Morris
as Marge
Liam Redmond
as Bill
Lily Kann
as Mrs Sarah Jacobson
Marianne Stone
as Mrs Jokel
David Hemmings
as Kenny
Edwin Richfield
as Jackie
Campbell Singer
as Inspector
Lloyd Lamble
as Police Superintendent
Richard Shaw
as Reg
Rita Webb
as Mrs Brown
Fred Griffiths
as Street Orator
Victor Brooks
as Bookie's Clerk
Billy Lawrence
as Minor Role (uncredited)