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21.12.15

don't talk to strange men (1962)

"All alone at then end of the lane."
Jean Painter (Christina Gregg) is a young girl, who dreams of romance. Then one day whilst waiting for a bus, it seems to arrive, when she answers a public telephone that is ringing. She gets into conversation with a suave young man, and as the relationship grows she decides to meet him, but who is this man on the end of the phone, and what is his reason or wanting to meet?
A subdued drama, with the one aim, which it does with aplomb.

11.4.10

what a carve up! (1961)

AKA No Place Like Homicide!
"He's dead!"
Ernie (Kenneth Connor) is summoned to the wilds of Yorkshire as an uncle he never knew has just died. There he finds out that he and his eccentric relatives have to spend the night in the spooky ancestral home in order to claim the inheritance. Soon things start to go wrong and one by one the guests begin to drop dead.
A mediocre film, that throws some mildly diverting comedy into the mix with Sid James, Shirley Eaton and Esma Cannon amongst other stalwarts of the Carry On films popping up alongside the more obviously spooky Donald Pleasence and Michael Gough.