No Trees in the Street (1959)

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Country: UK
Genres: Drama
Release: 1964-01-01
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writers: Ted Willis
Language: English
Stars: Sylvia Syms , Herbert Lom (1917–2012) , Ronald Howard , Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) , Joan Miller , Melvyn Hayes , Liam Redmond , Carole Lesley , Lana Morris , Lily Kann
Runtime: 96 min
Awards: Nominated for 2 BAFTA 2 nominations total
AKA: No Trees in the Street (United States of America) , Straße ohne Zukunft , Nema drveća na ulici , Rua sem Árvores (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Puuton katu (Finland) , Inga träd på gatan (Sweden) , No Trees in the Street , Sti zougla tis paranomias (Greece) , No Trees in the Street (United Kingdom)
Plot: Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Then it was an area of overcrowded tenements teeming with impoverished unemployed people with little or no hope. He relates the story of attractive young Hetty who desperately tried to stop her younger brother descending into crime while her mother was endlessly urging her to take up with Wilkie, a smooth local racketeer, in the belief this would get the family out of poverty.
IMDB:tt0052006