No Trees in the StreetMovie
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.
About No Trees in the Street
No Trees in the Street is a 1959 drama, crime movie directed by J. Lee Thompson.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 36m, production credits from United Kingdom, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Melvyn Hayes, Ronald Howard. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
