Year: 1959
Runtime: 96 mins
Language: English
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Set just before World War II during England’s lingering Depression, the film follows aimless teenager Melvyn Hayes as he turns to crime to escape his squalid slum. He becomes entangled with local thug Herbert Lom, whose reign of terror grips the neighbourhood and Hayes’s own family. The story traces his descent from petty theft to murder.
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