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Kennedy Street: Where a girl learned about life - the hard way!
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Sylvia SymsHetty
Herbert LomWilkie
Melvyn HayesTommy
Ronald HowardFrank
Stanley HollowayKipper
Joan MillerJess
Carole LesleyLova
Lana MorrisMarge
Liam RedmondBill
Marianne StoneMrs Jokel
David HemmingsKennyExplore the crew
- Editor
- Richard Best
- Writer
- Ted Willis
- Director
- J. Lee Thompson
- Director of Photography
- Gilbert Taylor
- Original Music Composer
- Laurie Johnson
- Producer
- Frank Godwin