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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.
No Trees in the Street: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard, Stanley Holloway. Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s.
In 1930s London, a man becomes the self-appointed leader in a brutally impoverished slum.
In 1930s London, a teenager tries to escape his run-down tenement by entering a life of crime — but his decision comes at a significant cost. Watch trailers & learn more.
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 ...
No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder. 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.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. In direct contrast to his later lush-budgeted international epics, director J. Lee Thompson turns his lenses towards the London slums in the sincere but saccharine No Trees in the Street.
