Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
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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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Cast

Helen Horton
as Sylvia Kingsley
Patrick Allen
as Peter Carter
Janina Faye
as Jean Carter
Robert Arden
as Tom Demarest
Bill Nagy
as Clarence Olderberry Jr.
Felix Aylmer
as Clarence Olderberry Sr.
Gwen Watford
as Sally Carter
Michael Gwynn
as Prosecutor
Niall MacGinnis
as Defense Counsel
Estelle Brody
as Eunice Kalliduke

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