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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

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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

Patrick Allen

Peter Carter

Patrick Allen

Gwen Watford

Sally Carter

Gwen Watford

Janina Faye

Jean Carter

Janina Faye

Felix Aylmer

Clarence Olderberry Sr.

Felix Aylmer

Niall MacGinnis

Defense Counsel

Niall MacGinnis

Michael Gwynn

Prosecutor

Michael Gwynn

Alison Leggatt

Martha

Alison Leggatt

Bill Nagy

Clarence Olderberry Jr.

Bill Nagy

MacDonald Parke

Judge

MacDonald Parke

Estelle Brody

Eunice Kalliduke

Estelle Brody

Robert Arden

Tom Demarest

Robert Arden

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Lucille

Frances Green

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