A young man attempts to escape his working-class background and win the girl he loves through crime.

The credits roll as a number 12 double decker bus headed for Harlesden drives through London.

In the club lobby car mechanic (and petty criminal) Terry Collins speaks with Joe Lucas at the outer bar and asks to see the owner, gangster Jacko Fielding.

Terry is obsessed with the star stripper Sue, but is unable to pursue her openly because the wealthy and powerful Jacko is interested in her.

The morning Daily Express paper informs Terry that he killed his victim – the man at the start of the film.

At the Star Garage where Terry works the police wait inside and Johnny Calvert sits opposite in a cafe.

At a very sunny 4 o'clock the elderly caretaker of the club comes out to feed the cats and Terry coshes him and goes to the office with Johnny.

Terry double-crosses Johnny by knocking him out and absconding with the money, just as the club's caretaker manages to trigger an alarm, alerting the police.

The police arrive, tipped off by Johnny and Joe, and Terry takes Sue and Mr. Rose, the elderly tailor who occupies the flat next door, as hostages in a standoff.

[2] Despite its setting in a strip club, the film received an "A" rating from the British Board of Film Classification after removing some material, including shortening two striptease scenes and deleting a back view of Jill Ireland baring her breasts to the club audience.

[2] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Dreary second feature, with a number of amateurish striptease acts dispiritingly presented to eke out a feeble, formulary plot.

"[1]: 155 In Sixties British CInema, Robert Murphy wrote: "Without wishing to deny the film's flaws, its exploration of a grimy world of shortened horizons and stunted development which affluence has touched in only the most superficial way is fascinating.

And its young protagonists, David McCallum, Kenneth Cope, Jill Ireland – fragile, brutal, vulnerable, rebellious – are disturbingly true to life.

"[4] Jungle Street was released on DVD by Odeon Entertainment in 2008, in a set with the British crime drama A Matter of Choice (1963).