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Release Date:
March 3, 1959
Original Title:
No Trees in the Street
Genres:
Crime | Drama
Production Companies:
Allegro Film
Associated British Picture Corporation
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
GB: PG US: NR
Runtime: 96
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 Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Art Direction:
Robert Jones
Assistant Director:
Ross MacKenzie
Camera Operator:
Val Stewart
Casting:
Robert Lennard
Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Director of Photography:
Gilbert Taylor
Editor:
Richard Best
Hairstylist:
Polly Young
Makeup Artist:
Eric Aylott
Original Music Composer:
Laurie Johnson
Producer:
Frank Godwin
Sound Recordist:
Len Shilton
Norman Coggs
Writer:
Ted Willis
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