Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Mar 4, 1960

1h 21m

★ 7.3

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger Trailers

Cast

Peter Carter

Patrick Allen

Sally Carter

Gwen Watford

Jean Carter

Janina Faye

Clarence Olderberry Sr.

Felix Aylmer

Defense Counsel

Niall MacGinnis

Prosecutor

Michael Gwynn

Martha

Alison Leggatt

Clarence Olderberry Jr.

Bill Nagy

Judge

MacDonald Parke

Eunice Kalliduke

Estelle Brody

Tom Demarest

Robert Arden

Lucille

Frances Green

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