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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

...and then he made us play that silly game...

7.3(49)19601h 21m1

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.

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English
  • canada
  • chase
  • candy
  • patriarch
  • social commentary
  • principal
  • pedophile
  • child molester
  • courtroom

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical1 Aug 1960
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical124 Mar 1960
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical16Erstaufführung in der DDR am 01.02.196327 Jan 1961

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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger was released on 4 March 1960.

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    John Chard

    7/21/2019

    8/10

    I don't know who's more dangerous, you or your father? Never Take Sweets from a Stranger is directed by Cyril Frankel and written by John Hunter who adapts from the play Pony Cart written by Roger Garis. It stars Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Felix Aylmer, Michael Gwynn, Alison Leggatt and Niall MacGinnis. Music is by Elisabeth Lutyns and John Hollingsworth and Megascope cinematography by Freddie Fran…

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