Rent Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)
3.5 of 5 from 54 ratings
1h 4min
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- Synopsis:
A young girl accepts a lift home from a stranger. Moments later she lies dead; another victim of the murderer who is targeting young, impressionable women. Whilst Jean (Christina Gregg) is waiting for a bus on a deserted country lane she answers the ringing telephone in the public callbox. Although it is a wrong number she begins to chat with the charming stranger and is attracted to his seductive voice. Imagining a romantic, schoolgirl dalliance, Jean calls herself Samantha and arranges for the man to call her at the callbox the next night. Scared for her safety, Jean's parents forbid her and her younger sister to go out alone at night whilst the murderer is still at large. But Jean continues her schoolgirl dalliances with her romantic stranger and arranges to meet him on a dark and lonely night at the callbox... - Actors:
- Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond, Gillian Lind, Conrad Phillips, Dandy Nichols, Gwen Nelson, Robin Hunter, Bernadette Woodman, Jack Sharp
- Directors:
- Pat Jackson
- Writers:
- Gwen Cherrell
- Studio:
- Odeon
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
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Behind a Closed Glass Door - Don't Talk to Strange Men review by CH
What was known at the time as a supporting feature, and now as a b-film, here is something which outdoes many a longer and splashier work. Much of it takes place in and outside a Home Counties telephone box some six decades ago. Teenage Christina who babysits for the owners of a pub is outside the call box to await the 'bus home when the telephone keeps ringing. From some impulse, she picks up the receiver and, despite finding it's a wrong number, she is beguiled into talking with a strange man, a smooth-talking one with whom she agrees to speak again from the box.
Things look set to go badly from there, with a Chorus figure saying as much - played by none other than Dandy Nichols as the 'bus conductress. Which is a contrast with the cavalier way in which her parents treat the situation after she has mentioned it to her younger sister (Janina Faye), a Buddhist-leaning girl who becomes wise to the imminent danger.
Written by Gwen Cherrell, this is not , for most of the time, so much a thriller as an account of the turmoil in the mind of so many who find a part in so unusual a drama. It is difficult to think of anything quite like it, even those in which a telephone figures largely - and, indeed, the earlier broader-based Never Take Sweets from a Stranger in which Jenina Faye also appeared with similar peril.
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