Don't Talk to Strange Men

Don't Talk to Strange Men is a 1962 black and white British 'B'[2] crime thriller film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond and Gillian Lind.

Meanwhile, Jean Painter, a teenage schoolgirl, waits for a bus on a quiet country lane.

At home, she tells her younger sister Ann of the phone call, romantically envisaging what the caller might look like.

The next evening, Jean pretends to go into town with Ann to go to the cinema, but instead takes the bus to the rendezvous.

Realising how stupid she has been, Jean runs to The Chequers where she hears the man's voice and sees his face.

Worried about Jean, Ann has left the cinema early and arrived at the phone box looking for her.

The final scene has a nice touch of irony, and the approach to the subject is the more effective for being deliberately unhysterical.

Christina Griegg is the young girl in trouble after disobeying the instruction of the title, while Gilian Lind and Cyril Raymond are her very middle-class parents.