Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
...and then he made us play that silly game...
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Key facts
- Released:
- 1960-03-04
- Runtime:
- 81 min
- Genres:
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Director:
- Cyril Frankel
- Top cast:
- Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn
- Original language:
- EN
- TMDB rating:
- 7.3/10 from 47 votes
- Bynge Score:
- 6.8/10