Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Name: Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1960-03-04
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 7.323

★ 7,3 /10 (48 Votes)

1960 EN 81 min

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.

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Release date

04/03/1960

Votes

Popularity

1.6

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

Genres

Drama Mystery Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

81 min

Patrick Allen

Peter Carter

Gwen Watford

Sally Carter

Janina Faye

Jean Carter

Felix Aylmer

Clarence Olderberry Sr.

Niall MacGinnis

Defense Counsel

Michael Gwynn

Prosecutor

Alison Leggatt

Martha

Bill Nagy

Clarence Olderberry Jr.

MacDonald Parke

Judge

Estelle Brody

Eunice Kalliduke

Robert Arden

Tom Demarest

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Frances Green

Lucille

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Budd Knapp

Hammond

Helen Horton

Sylvia Kingsley

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Gaylord Cavallaro

Neal Phillips

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Vera Cook

Mrs. Demarest

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James Dyrenforth

Dr. Stevens

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Hazel Jennings

Mrs. Olderberry

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Cal McCord

Charles Kalliduke

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Sheila Robins

Miss Jackson

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Larry O'Connor

Sam Kingsley

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Shirley Butler

Mrs. Nash

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Jack Lynn

Dr. Montfort

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John Bloomfield

Foreman of Jury

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Sonia Fox

Receptionist

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Peter Carlisle

Usher

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I don't know who's more dangerous, you or your father? Never Take Sweets from a Stranger is directed by Cyril Frankel and written by John Hunter who adapts from the play Pony Cart written by Roger Garis. It stars Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Felix Aylmer, Michael Gwynn, Alison Leggatt and Niall MacGinnis. Music is by Elisabeth Lutyns and John Hollingsworth and Megascope cinematography by Freddie Francis. British family the Carter's have emigrated to small town Canada and are rocked when it is revealed that 9 year old Jean (Faye), and her friend Lucille (Frances Green), were…

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