Ruth Dunning

Nora Nicholson

Joanna Dunham

Howard Pays

May Hallatt

Gwenda Wilson

Ian Colin

Gladys Henson

Barbara Everest

Max Brimmell

James Raglan

Trevor Reid

Elizabeth Begley

Diana Chesney

Jerold Wells

Richard McNeff

Jan Miller

Jackie Noble

Edna Morris

Deirdre Clarke

Arlene Butler

Brian Weske

Roddy Maude-Roxby

John Line

Frank Sieman

Keith Smith

Frank Hawkins

Barry Wilsher

Norman Percival

Geoffrey Faithfull

Peter Bezencenet

Duncan Sutherland

Eddie Knight

Helen Penfold

Denis Holt

George Adams

Stephen Dalby

Jim Sibley

Bob Thompson

Tina Swanson

Barbara Cole 

Charles Saunders

Brandon Fleming

Gerald Anstruther

Guido Coen

Ted Sturgis

Drama

Dangerous Afternoon

Bryanston Films

Theatrecraft

CinemaSerf

"Miss Frost" (Ruth Dunning), confined to a wheelchair, runs a guest house for ladies who - like her - have a bit of a criminal past. They all rub along well enough, pilfering from each other and generally goading and provoking until their landlady learns that one of her erstwhile associates has been released from Her Majesty's pleasure and is likely to want to come visit! The outwardly vulnerable "Frost" is no pushover and lays a trap... It's quite a disarmingly effective little crime drama this. The supporting cast provide just enough of an amiable smokescreen to facilitate a decent performance from Dunning as the quite ruthless and calculating invalid. The ending is a wee bit contrived but there is quite a confessional with the vicar at the denouement. The production is all pretty basic and it's maybe not got the most alluring of titles for a film, but at just over the hour, I found it quite watchable.

English