Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
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United Kingdom · 1960
1h 21m
Director Cyril Frankel
Starring Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Felix Aylmer
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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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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