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UNITED KINGDOM · 1959

No Trees in the Street

J. Lee Thompson
Synopsis

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

Year1959
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorJ. Lee Thompson
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crime and delinquency · urban poverty · pre-war England · gang violence · coming of age

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