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1960

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Directed by Cyril Frankel
...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.

Duration

1h 21m

Released

March 4, 1960

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7.3

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Cast26

  • Patrick Allen
  • Gwen Watford
  • Janina Faye
  • Felix Aylmer
  • Niall MacGinnis
  • Michael Gwynn
  • Alison Leggatt
  • Bill Nagy
  • MacDonald Parke

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