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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

1h 21m · 1 podcast episode about this movie
1960DramaThrillerMysterydir. Cyril Frankel

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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