Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
- Released on
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
•- Runtime
- 81 mins
(41 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Patrick Allen
- Gwen Watford
- Janina Faye
- Felix Aylmer
- Niall MacGinnis
- Michael Gwynn
- Alison Leggatt
- Bill Nagy
- MacDonald Parke
- Estelle Brody
- Robert Arden
- Frances Green
- Budd Knapp
- Helen Horton
- Gaylord Cavallaro
- Vera Cook
- James Dyrenforth
- Hazel Jennings
- Cal McCord
- Sheila Robins
- Larry O'Connor
- Shirley Butler
- Jack Lynn
- John Bloomfield
- Sonia Fox
Director
- Cyril Frankel
Producers
- Anthony Hinds
Screenwriter
- John Hunter
