No Trees in the Street (1959)

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

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 (20)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

L

Lily Kann

Sarah Jacobson

Marianne Stone

Mrs Jokel

David Hemmings

Kenny

Edwin Richfield

Jackie

Campbell Singer

Inspector

Lloyd Lamble

Police Superintendent

R

Richard Shaw

Reg

Rita Webb

Mrs Brown

Fred Griffiths

Street Orator

Victor Brooks

Bookie's Clerk

B

Billy Lawrence

(uncredited)

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