No Trees In The Street

Lom plays a petty thief who controls a London slum area in 1938. Miller is a mother who wants her children to better themselves than she and to escape from the slums. She talks her son, Hayes, into working for Lom in the hope that the neighborhood hero will be their ticket out. Miller tries to get her daughter, Syms, romantically interested in Lom as well, but the girl will have nothing to do with him. When she tries to leave home on her own, Miller gets the girl drunk. She takes her inebriated daughter to Lom, who seduces the luckless Syms. Afterwards, he humiliates her in front of an old lover. Meanwhile Hayes has committed murder, and he returns home to his moth...