Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
...and then he made us play that silly game...
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.
- Year: 1960
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Studio: Hammer Film Productions
- Keyword: canada, chase, candy, patriarch, social commentary, principal, pedophile, child molester, courtroom
- Director: Cyril Frankel
- Cast: Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn