Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

7.2

United States Of America

Drama Mystery Thriller

81 min

1960

Patrick Allen Gwen Watford Janina Faye Felix Aylmer Niall MacGinnis Michael Gwynn Alison Leggatt Bill Nagy MacDonald Parke Estelle Brody Robert Arden Helen Horton

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.