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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

...and then he made us play that silly game...

Radar 33Slightly unusualGB:121h 21mDrama · Mystery · Thriller

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

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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Content check

✗ Not for kidsBest for teens and up · GB 12

Based on the age rating and content tags — not a full scene-by-scene list.

Radar score33/100
Quality signal64/100
Audience rating7.3
Votes counted48
Trust signalSlightly unusual

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