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.
- Date of release
- 1960-03-04
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (49)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Director
- Cyril Frankel
Casting
- Patrick Allen — Peter Carter
- Gwen Watford — Sally Carter
- Janina Faye — Jean Carter
- Felix Aylmer — Clarence Olderberry Sr.
- Niall MacGinnis — Defense Counsel
- Michael Gwynn — Prosecutor
- Alison Leggatt — Martha
- Bill Nagy — Clarence Olderberry Jr.
- MacDonald Parke — Judge
- Estelle Brody — Eunice Kalliduke
- Robert Arden — Tom Demarest
- Frances Green — Lucille
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