Tomorrow at Ten

Tomorrow at Ten is a 1962 British second feature[1] thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring John Gregson, Robert Shaw and Kenneth Cope.

The boy's nanny alerts the police and Inspector Parnell arrives to discourage Chester from paying up lest it encourages giving in to blackmailers' demands.

This is too much for Chester who attacks Marlow, causing the crook serious injuries from which he later dies, leaving the police with little time or indication as to where to find Jonathan.

Well before Robert Shaw's disappearance, however, the script begins to show signs of strain, in suggestions that Marlow will break because he has some awful mother-fixation; and with his unlikely demise, and the eleventh hour revelation, it finally snaps and becomes pure routine.

Robbed of script and actors, the direction is unkindly revealed in all its laborious reliance on uninspired cross-cutting back and forth from rescuers to boy cuddling explosive golliwog.