Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

12 08/01/1960 (US) Drama, Mystery, Thriller 1h 21m

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

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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.

Cyril Frankel

Director
John Hunter

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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
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on July 21, 2019

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 Francis.

British family the Carter's have emigrated to small town Canada and are rocked when it is revealed that 9 year old Jean (Faye), and her friend Lucille (Frances Green), were... read the rest.

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