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No Trees in the Street (1959) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1959 · 96 mins · English
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- Directed by
- J. Lee Thompson
- Starring
- David Hemmings, Herbert Lom, Stanley Holloway, Sylvia Syms, Melvyn Hayes, Fred Griffiths
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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