
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.
Cast

Sylvia Syms
Hetty

Herbert Lom
Wilkie

Melvyn Hayes
Tommy

Ronald Howard
Frank

Stanley Holloway
Kipper

Joan Miller
Jess

Carole Lesley
Lova

Lana Morris
Marge

Liam Redmond
Bill
Lily Kann
Mrs Sarah Jacobson

Marianne Stone
Mrs Jokel

David Hemmings
Kenny

Edwin Richfield
Jackie

Campbell Singer
Inspector

Lloyd Lamble
Police Superintendent
Richard Shaw
Reg

Rita Webb
Mrs Brown

Fred Griffiths
Street Orator

Victor Brooks
Bookie's Clerk
Billy Lawrence
Minor Role (uncredited)
Crew

J. Lee Thompson
Director
Ted Willis
Writer
Richard Best
Editor

Gilbert Taylor
Director of Photography
Ross MacKenzie
Assistant Director
Frank Godwin
Producer
Val Stewart
Camera Operator
Robert Lennard
Casting
Polly Young
Hairstylist
Eric Aylott
Makeup Artist
Norman Coggs
Sound Recordist
Len Shilton
Sound Recordist
Laurie Johnson
Original Music Composer
Robert Jones
Art Direction
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