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03/03/1959 Drama, Crime 1h 36m
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Kennedy Street: Where a girl learned about life - the hard way!

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.

  1. J. Lee Thompson

    Director

  2. Ted Willis

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Sylvia Syms

    Hetty

  2. Herbert Lom

    Wilkie

  3. Melvyn Hayes

    Tommy

  4. Ronald Howard

    Frank

  5. Stanley Holloway

    Kipper

  6. Joan Miller

    Jess

  7. Carole Lesley

    Lova

  8. Lana Morris

    Marge

  9. Liam Redmond

    Bill

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-08-02
The whole world's gone mad. Stark raving mad.

No Trees in the Street is directed by J. Lee Thompson and adapted from his own play by Ted Willis. It stars Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard, Melvyn Hayes and Stanley Holloway. Music is by Laurie Johnson and cinematography by Gilbert Taylor.

Capturing a young tearaway, a London copper tells the youngster a story from a couple of decades earlier. It's about a family living in the slums of the East End, of a pretty daughter getting involved with the local racketeer, of the young impressionable son turning to crime, it's of their fates, t...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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