No Trees in the Street is a 1959 British crime thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom and Melvyn Hayes.

[6] According to Willis, Associated British agreed to finance the film but only if any profits made from Woman in a Dressing Gown were held back to offset losses on No Trees in the Street.

"[8] Monthly Film Bulletin said "Gingerly adapted by Ted Willis from his own play, and enclosed in a flash-back to twenty years ago, this problem picture about London slum life suffers from all the faults of the original and has none of its virtues.

Lee-Thompson's direction is hysterical, the playing is pitched throughout on a level of pathetic desperation, and Gilbert Taylor's photography conveys an unrelieved drabness which is the film's only concession to reality.

"[9] Variety wrote "Ted Willis is a writer with a sympathetic eye for problems of the middle and lower classes ... Syms gives a moving performance as the gentle girl who refuses to marry the cheap racketeer just to escape.

It was unlucky enough to be released in the same year that British cinema entered its great "kitchen sink" phase, but this thin-cut slice of street life could never feel anything but stale.

Herbert Lom tries to inject a little menace as a small-time hoodlum, but, confronted with sickly sweet Sylvia Syms and teen tearaway Melvyn Hayes, he succumbs to the mediocrity.