No Trees in the Street (1964)

Based on the play by Ted Willis the film is set in the years just before World War II when England hadnt 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 nickelanddime thefts to murder