Never Take Candy from a Stranger
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
1960, Film, 81 min, Drama, Horror, Mystery, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 69
...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.
Directed by Cyril Frankel
Cast
- Gwen Watford as Sally Carter
- Patrick Allen as Peter Carter
- Felix Aylmer as Clarence Olderberry Sr.
- Niall MacGinnis as Defense Counsel
- Alison Leggatt as Martha
- Bill Nagy as Clarence Olderberry Jr
- Michael Gwynn as Prosecutor
- Budd Knapp as Hammond
- MacDonald Parke as Judge
- Estelle Brody as Eunice Kalliduke
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