A Cry from the Streets is a 1958 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Max Bygraves and Barbara Murray.

[3] Bygraves wrote in his memoirs that Lewis Gilbert was the most sensitive director he worked with adding "I honestly believe that could I have had his direction for a few more movies, I could have been a good screen actor.

He was the only director that would come up to me before a take and say things like: “In this next scene you are bloody well annoyed—you feel like telling the matron to get stuffed—but with the kids looking on you daren’t, so you bottle it up and just nod ‘Yes’.”[4] Kinematograph Weekly listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958.

But his integrity serves only to emphasize the theatrical posturing of Barabara Murray, who gives a cold and artificial performance in a part that calls for generous impulsiveness.

"[8] The New York Times wrote "this inquiry into the lives of some of the orphaned and homeless youngsters in a municipal children's shelter is realistic, bittersweet drama played with compassion and insight.