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96 min. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. No Trees in the Street is a 1959 British crime thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom and Melvyn Hayes. It was written by Ted Willis, from his 1948 stage play of the same name. [1]
No Trees in the Street: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard, Stanley Holloway. London detective recalls 1930s poverty. Hetty battles brother's criminality, manipulative mother favoring racketeer Wilkie for gain.
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- Crime, Drama
- J. Lee Thompson
- 1964-01
Encouraged by his mother Jess, Tommy opts to make money the easy way by working for Wilkie, a local racketeer who preys on the families of Kennedy Street. Je...
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No Trees in the Street, directed by the Bristolian J Lee Thompson (known as J Lee presumably because John Thompson is rather mundane, I might ask to be known in future as P Stephen Thompson or, even better, Paul S Thompson) is a rather overheated crime melodrama, which, when it isn't being horribly moralistic, is a pretty entertaining yoof crime film which provides substantial roles for both ...
Director. Stanley Holloway. Kipper. Sylvia Syms. Hetty. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. In 1930s London, a man becomes the self-appointed leader in a brutally impoverished slum.
- Drama
- Stanley Holloway, Sylvia Syms
- J. Lee Thompson
Surrounded by new high-rise flats in London's East End, plain-clothes detective Frank Collins (Ronald Howard) recalls how things were so different in the area in the late 1930s when it was an area of overcrowded tenements teeming with impoverished people with little or no hope. Frank relates the story of attractive young Hetty Martin (Sylvia
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Released in 1959, tense crime thriller No Trees in the Street saw director J. Lee Thompson move further towards social realism as British Cinema embraced the New Wave. . Adapted by TV and theatre writer Ted Willis from his own stage play (his screenplay received a BAFTA nomination), Thompson cast Sylvia Syms as Hetty, a sweet young woman who desperately tries to stop her younger teenage ...
