Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) is a drama, mystery, thriller directed by Cyril Frankel rated 7.3/10.

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.